Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While I was tutoring some third-graders last week, one of them asked me if I was a "man." I don't know, I said, and asked them what they thought. The answers varied from "Well, you're really tall" to "You have to shave every day" to "You could beat up my dad." But all ended with the conclusion that...
...know that Art Buchwald was a bumbling Marine who failed to get a laugh when he dropped a bomb he was loading onto a Corsair? Or that 6-ft. 2-in. Julia Child served with the OSS in India after the WAVES rejected her because she was too tall...
...greatest, all Brokaw's heroes--tall and short, famous and obscure--are part of the great generation that turned the old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" into a blessing...
...truth about Disney, who was described by an observant writer as "a tall, somber man who appeared to be under the lash of some private demon," is slightly less benign and a lot more interesting. Uncle Walt actually didn't have an avuncular bone in his body. Though he could manage a sort of gruff amiability with strangers, his was, in fact, a withdrawn, suspicious and, above all, controlling nature. And with good--or anyway explicable--reason...
...Golden Knights dare any opposing attacker to make his way through their physically dominating defense. Roy is the only regular defenseman not at least six feet tall. Mitchell cuts as imposing a presence stopping the rush as he does supporting it. Last weekend, Clarkson held high-powered B.C. to a goal...