Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that attendance at most of the ceremonies surrounding the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty over the July 4 weekend will be determined by a nationwide lottery. Separate drawings will be held for the 125,000 tickets--some free--available for five events: Operation Sail, a procession of tall ships up the Hudson River; a fireworks show; a Boston Pops concert; a sports celebration featuring stars like Olympic Champion Dorothy & Hamill; and an entertainment spectacular with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Lionel Richie. The lottery was the idea of David Wolper, producer of Liberty Weekend...
...tall Black man, going by the name Chris Bailey, who spoke with an English accent appeared at the Denver University Dean of Students' office yesterday morning, asking the dean to help him borrow money he needed to get home, said University of Denver officials...
...setting, at first, seems fabricated solely for farce. The place is London, the year is 1880; high Victorian earnestness rules the day, and people with funny names start assembling onstage. Waldo Chatterway, a society gossip who has spent the past 25 years cultivating the "tall poppies" of Continental royalty, decides to move back to his native London for good. He visits his longtime friend Severus Egg, "the last of the romantic poets," who retains a malicious wit and the conviction, in his mid-70s, that "I have survived into the era of the goody-goodies." Egg, naturally, has a black...
...statue of Christopher Columbus, tall atop a rococo column in the spacious Madrid plaza, gazed off toward the New World as more than 750,000 Spaniards gathered in the square and streets and parks around it. Chanted the crowd: "NATO no! Bases...
...HAVE A FRIEND who is going to pose for Playboy. I do not know whether she will earn $500 to take her clothes off or whether Playboy just values her at $100 with her clothes on. She is attractive--tall, blondish hair and, yes, buxom. And I have argued with her about why she should not go to David Chan, and she will still go; and she is still my friend. But I did not feel obliged to give her Chan's number. Nor would I feel obliged to give a racist the time and place of the Ku Klux...