Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine waking up one morning and discovering an ungainly metal tower, 150 ft. tall, looming above the trees in your front yard. No, such a contraption--a stout monopole topped with a crown of antennas--doesn't yet mar my leafy corner of suburbia. But it will soon, unless I do something about it, and that prospect has spurred me, along with my neighbors, to churn out a torrent of letters, petitions and telephone calls. Why, we wonder, must Dallas-based PrimeCo Personal Communications plop its tower in a residential area of Du Page County, Illinois, when there are plenty...
...irony, says Chicago architect Nestor Popowych, president of a wireless-development group, is that there is a better way. After all, a tower is just a post for antennas, and any tall structure--a water tower, a billboard, a stanchion in a football stadium--can serve the purpose. Companies can further lessen the unsightliness by clustering their antennas at a common site. When a tower must be built, it can often be camouflaged so that it looks like a silo on a barn, a bell tower on a church, even a palm or pine tree. In fact, insists Lowell McAdam...
Kayleen Kulaszewicz, a tall, sandy-haired eight-year-old described her plans to go trick-or-treating last night, dressed as "Cinderella with Rapunzel hair...
...police described the knife-bearing suspect as a white male, 20 to 25 years old, 5'10" to 6' tall, with brown bushy or wind-blown hair...
Standing 50 feet tall, it is a near perfect specimen, Corey said...