Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dartmouth undergrads didn't leave Harvard's older representatives any too thrilled, either. At halftime, before either band could take the field, a Big Green mass of freshmen swarmed onto the field and formed a mammoth "88," as tall as the field is wide, and ran in circles chanting "Harvard sucks...
...said to the factory crowd of 250, "it absolutely floors me. I want to find out why." The workers were mum. At last one mentioned Carter and Iran. "O.K.," she shot back. "Have those people worried about Iran seen what's happened in Beirut recently? Are we standing tall in Lebanon with a President who doesn't take responsibility?" Ferraro kept answering and challenging. Once she showed her testy streak. A worker, complaining about welfare cheats, said he knew of a woman who was illegally getting four monthly Government checks. Said Ferraro: "Quite frankly...
...Cesare ("Tall Guy") Bonventre was one of the latter. When he entered the U.S. 16 years ago from Castellammare del Golfo at the age of 17, he had few skills beyond a natural ability with a lupara, a sawed-off shotgun. But he was quick and good-looking, and he did have some connections: his uncle Peter was a founding member of New York's Bonanno crime family and his uncle Giovanni was one of the family's leading underbosses. Bonventre was impatient; so when he tired of the construction job his "family" had found...
...1920s. Using such draconian methods as torture and summary execution, the police weakened the Mafia's stranglehold on Sicily. Don Vito was arrested and convicted for smuggling. When the president of the court asked Don Vito if he had something to say in his defense, the tall, distinguished-looking old man with a flowing beard declared, "Gentlemen, since you have been unable to find any evidence for the numerous crimes I really have committed, you are reduced to condemning me for the only one I have...
...team's historic misfortunes have been reversed by an unromantic Philadelphia tough-6 ft. 5 in. tall-named Dallas Green, who managed the Phillies to a world championship in 1980 and became general manager of the Cubs the next year. Only three incumbent players have survived his first scowling look around...