Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago the tall, restless character who moved into the White House with Franklin Roosevelt was viewed by large portions of the U.S. public with some degree of derision if not alarm. They caricatured her, joked about her, called her 'Eleanor Everywhere.' They couldn't believe that any one woman could sincerely embrace the multiplicity of interests ... Today enough people have met Mrs. Roosevelt, talked with her ... checked up on her, to accept her for what she is: the prodigious niece of prodigious, ubiquitous, omnivorous Roosevelt I. Everything she says, everything she does, is genuinely and transparently motivated. Sophisticates...
...interviews, held under the first two masters of the house, Roger B. Merriman, Class of 1896 and John H. Finely Jr. '45, could be nerve wracking. Merriman's daughter, Fernald, says her father could be "terrifying--he was quite tall...
...have been here before. From the first settlements in the 17th century, to the opening of the West in the 19th, through the many mass migrations in the 20th century, Americans have repeatedly grabbed what they could carry and headed off into the tall and uncut, down a risky path to a new prosperity. As America enters the 21st century, its role as the lone superpower is uncertain; the search for a truly multicultural society is under siege; its ability to raise standards of living is in doubt; and its recent record of solving its problems together is beginning...
...Susan McDougal that he loved being Governor: "This is fun. Women are throwing themselves at me. All the while I was growing up, I was the fat boy in the Big Boy jeans." At an inauguration party, Susan had seen Bill Clinton disappear from the party with a tall blond woman in tow. Hillary was putting on a brave face, but the incident was stirring up a buzz, and Susan could tell she was upset. She went over to commiserate with the state's new first lady, sharing an observation she'd got from Betty Tucker, wife of then Congressman...
...campaign chairman, the tall and taut Bay is mostly behind the scenes, plotting strategy, raising money, orchestrating commercials. Pat calls her every 30 minutes to check in. Bay is the personification of his barking inner voice, goading him to run for President, something she has been doing for a decade. Whereas Bay talks nonstop in her brother's rat-a-tat style, Shelley is painfully reticent. Her only public role is to smile serenely, sit behind the candidate onstage and form the visual punch line to one of his biggest applause getters: "I want to introduce the lady I intend...