Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Angus bull, the long, tall kind, from Jim Hawkins' farms." The stranger put down the newspaper, took Chester Hickle's knife and whittled like a fool...
...welcome home. The organizers agreed that the veterans could bring up the rear of the procession. "I don't mind," said one. "That's what we've always done." They formed a line of march and stepped out with an unexpected precision and esprit. A tall veteran played Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. As they marched along, other veterans left the sidewalks and joined them. Eventually, there were about 300, most of them members of the Vietnam Veterans of America. They were dressed in something like the raggedy irregular's garb they had worn...
...pain signal from the stubbing of the toe travels as an electrochemical impulse along the length of the nerve to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, a region that runs the length of the spine and receives signals from all over the body. In a tall person, the distance from toe to dorsal horn may be more than one meter, and it can take about two seconds for the message to arrive. From there, it is relayed in a bewildering flurry of chemical messages to the brain, first to the thalamus, where sensations like heat, cold, pain and touch...
...Tall and athletic, Juan Carlos was known is an avid sportsman (and still is, although a pelvic injury last year has slowed him somewhat). He was a member of Spain's 1972 Dragon-class Olympic sailing team. A black belt in karate, it was said its kept his broken boards in a mansion closet. He is also an avid motorcyclist...
...gremlins really are an army of latex-skinned puppets devised by Special Effects Maven Chris Walas (Piranha, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and assembled for a bargain-basement $1.3 million. (By contrast, Carlo Rambaldi's E.T. creature alone cost $1.5 million.) The greenish-brown monsters, standing 23 in. tall with their 10-in. bat ears, were controlled by hands, cables, rods, radio signals and a simple but effective method that Walas describes as "throw-'em-across-the-room puppetry." The most complicated gremlin had 60 cables operated by a dozen technicians standing 8 ft. to 10 ft. away...