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Word: talled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucy was not much more than a meter tall (just under 4 ft.), suffered from arthritis and had a head like an ape. But last week she became a front-page celebrity. Anthropologist Donald Carl Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History called a press conference to claim that Lucy* is Australopithecus afarensis, a new species in man's evolutionary lineage. He put her age at 3.5 million years, which makes her younger than man's earliest known ancestor, Ramapithecus, who lived 10 million to 14 million years ago. But Johanson said Lucy came before the hominids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Lucy Link | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...told them, "so I'll just say so long for a while and God bless you." Earlier he had listened teary-eyed to words of tribute. "You might be sitting in that chair today, but to those of us who love you, you still stand and walk mighty tall," said Jamie Etheredge, mayor of Greenville. To be sure the fiery little politician left the corridors of power in style, the fans presented him with a black Lincoln Continental sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1979 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Panos is on the team... they go on a different trip every year... they're supposed to be a pretty good basketball team... it includes the Aeneid... they are pretty tall...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Harvard's Vagabond Cagers | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Mean and Tall...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Steelers Win Super Bowl In Offensive Battle, 35-31 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Dallas defensive end Harvey "Too Mean" Martin knocked the ball away from Bradshaw on third down late in the first quarter and Ed "Too Tall" Jones scooped up the fumble on the Steeler...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Steelers Win Super Bowl In Offensive Battle, 35-31 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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