Word: talled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goalies are too responsible to blame others in public or the press for their goals-against," says Bertagna. But within the cozy confines of the Society, it's open season, a time for fibs and tall tales. Above all, the contingent of shell-shocked ex-twineskeepers pat each other on the back. Says Fitzsimmons: "Everyone's a hero in the annals of the Society...
...minutes by car in any direction from the center of town will put you in the fields and woods of Sumter County. So I prowled for hours on the nearly empty roads-bare flats of resting purple earth; gentle folded hills on which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense world power are spaced round at intervals with no signposts may come to seem...
...THOSE bona fide type crazies was preaching on the street corner the other day. Four feet tall with a placard. "Listen," he said, "and know that man's powers of dispossession are far greater than his powers of possession." Terrific. "There are a lot of luxury cars out there, but even the wealthiest people can own but a few." This is true. "On the other hand," he said with absolute glee, "It's entirely possible not to own hundreds of thousands of Mercedes...
Even the ever-optimistic McLaughlin has expressed doubt about how well Harvard can do without a dominant big man. Dave Coatsworth has done an admirable job in the middle, but he's a freshman and not a very tall one at that. He can't control the tempo...
Also, the notion that man became bipedal in tandem with his brain growth is no longer widely held. (More likely, changing survival needs led him out of the jungle to the African savanna, where he stood to peer over tall grasses.) As for Johanson's announcing a "new" name for Lucy, some specialists observe he did that a year ago in a little-noticed Cleveland Museum journal. "I don't think Johanson has made a particularly good case for her being a different species," says a leading anthropologist, and adds...