Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which posits that the basic building blocks of nature are not tiny particles but unimaginably small loops and snippets of what loosely resembles string--except that the string exists in a bizarre, 10-dimensional universe. The current version of the theory took shape in the late 1960s, when the tall, thin, shy, wispy-voiced scientist was still an undergraduate at Brandeis...
...used to determine family relationships (that's how scientists determined that a woman named Anna Anderson was not, as she claimed, Princess Anastasia of Russia) or hereditary diseases (that's how they hope to prove Lincoln suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes its victims grow tall and gangly). Hair also soaks up drugs and other foreign substances from the body (low levels of arsenic in Napoleon's hair established that the ex-Emperor probably wasn't poisoned, as some historians believed...
...time--in the dining hall, in the Science Center, at a party, on the way to class. You might have heard her rip one of these things through the air, but you may not necessarily have guessed where it emanated from. It came from the smiling, six-foot-tall woman standing next to her nervously laughing friends...
...starving artists and threadbare assistant professors of English is, after all, an aesthete hatched at the New Yorker and renowned as the writer of eloquent, rarefied novels. And as a tormentor of reporters, who in his early years invented an ever changing, operatic past in which to luxuriate. One tall tale had his father refusing to let Helprin eat supper until, standing at attention, he had told a satisfactory original story...
...THREE TALL-ISH WOMEN...