Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...polished granite bench, which is four feet long, one-and-a-half feet wide and nearly two feet tall, has a white-lettered chiseled inscription...
...council. To many of his core constituents, returning him to the mayor's office would amount to vengeance. Mary Cox, a lawyer and Barry ally, says that in much of Washington's African-American community, "you learn early on that if you're a black man and you stand tall, and if you speak up for others, you're going to jail...
...began hurtling down from above that the scientists sitting in an Anchorage, Alaska, control room started to get seriously worried. Until then the robot known as Dante II had successfully negotiated a steep, muddy descent and ambled unconcernedly through hot steam and poisonous gases. But even a 10-ft.-tall, 1,700-lb. automaton has its limits, and multiton chunks of rock moving at high speed were beyond Dante's. "That big one," said Carnegie Mellon University robotics expert John Bares, pointing nervously at a video screen after a rockslide, "would've wiped...
...greatest casualty is soprano Deborah Polaski, playing Brunnhilde, especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...
...tall, pencil-thin general looks like a man in total control. Though Vice President and Defense Minister Paul Kagame is trading his uniform for suit and tie, no one doubts that the 37-year-old commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front wields the real power in his homeland. "This country needs to move," he says. "Someone must give it direction...