Word: talled
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Retton, by contrast, is a 4-ft. 9-in. study in power, able to leap tall buildings with a single bound and do a full-twisting layout double Tsukahara (a maneuver only a few men in the world can perform) while she is at it. On the vault, she earned a 10 with that trick, which calls for pouncing onto the vault, then pushing into the stratosphere with her arms and twisting 360° while doing a double somersault with her body perfectly straight...
Gross, never mind upstart antipodeans, was the dominant swimmer of the meet. He is a very tall, haunted-looking fellow whose nickname is the Albatross, and he soared above everyone else on air currents only he was able to find. He is 6 ft. 7½ in. tall and so thin he looks frail. His arm span, which on average should equal roughly his height, is an astonishing 7 ft. 4 in. He is the only male swimmer since Mark Spitz to hold world records in two strokes at the same time, and the combination of his success...
...pumps the blood," said Graham of the river. "Our goal is, by the year 2000, the water system will look and function more as it did in the year 1900 than it does today." And with the turnaround, naturalists predict, the fledgling cypress will grow up to 30 ft. tall...
Besides refusing to baby PS. Vanessa goes quite a bit further at times. The first time be glimpses her, she is framed in white light, tall and glamorous, and his eyes widen in wonder. But if she appears angelic, she also has a much darker side. Terrified of Australia's frequent thunderstorms, she rushes to his room and holds him quivering and whispering Logan's name. The scenes though not explicit carry some heavy Freudian overtones...
Once a reporter asked the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to describe the man she envisioned as the perfect husband. Her ideal, she said, would be over six feet tall. He would be a handsome man, a preacher, and he would be able to play the trombone...