Word: talled
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Soviet SS-20. The SS-20 is the biggest of the three (36 ft. tall, 5 ft. 6 in. in diameter). Unlike its Soviet liquid-fueled predecessors, which are considerably less accurate, the SS-20 is propelled by solid fuel. The main advantage: liquid fuel cannot be stored in a missile and the fueling process is slow. All U.S. missiles use solid fuel. The SS-20's range is long, up to 3,000 miles, and it is mobile, which makes it harder to find and destroy. Each has its own launcher, and Western intelligence experts suspect there...
...Prague in anticipation," the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda reported with due solemnity. If they were, all that they saw was perfunctory television footage when leaders from the seven Warsaw Pact nations converged on Czechoslovakia's capital last week for their biennial summit. The main attraction was the tall, stooped figure who stepped off a Soviet airplane at Prague's rain-soaked Ruzyne Airport. Yuri Andropov was making his first trip abroad since he became party chief last November. As it turned out, his foreign debut did not quite measure up to the advance billing in the Soviet...
Bill Walton has grown up to be a happy if infirm basketball player of 6 ft. 11 in. "What's it like being 7 ft. tall?" asks the usual sightseer passing by, and Walton replies genially, "How should I know? I'm only 6-11." At 30, he has learned to look on the bright side...
Easily the most complex, probably the most vulnerable, creatures in sports stand around 7 ft. tall. Whimsically, Wilt Chamberlain measured himself at 7 ft. 1 1/16 in., though he was probably taller. From 1959 to 1973, his incredible strength and gentleness were the two pivotal forces in professional basketball, and the second probably confounded Chamberlain as much as the Boston Celtics' Bill Russell ever did. Of Chamberlain's many records (a 50-point average one season, 100 points one game), the most remarkable and descriptive was that in 1,218 career games he never once fouled...
Last month, when 7-ft. 4-in. Ralph Sampson of Virginia and 7-ft. Pat Ewing of Georgetown locked planes and angles for the first time, Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach observed, "These young guys actually love being tall." He sounded amazed. "I love it now," says Walton. "It took me a while to get used to standing out in the crowd, looking awkward, feeling uncomfortable. But I've grown into it." He has grown out of other things, condemning the Government, for instance, and has even developed some affection for meat. "I've matured a lot." This...