Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cabot dining hall, people pointed and talked wildly about the stern, eight-foot-tall face staring them down. Parents told their friends; dog owners reported it to their kennel clubs; Quadlings brought their River friends to worship...
They had studied photographs of the mysterious statues of Easter Island in the House library and had decided to raise an eight-foot tall version in the middle of the Quad. At around three o'clock in the afternoon--in the early hours of the project--a Gargantuan snow stump formed in front of Cabot dining hall. It became so tall that one of the seniors mounted the stump and some others, who had come out to lend a hand, hoisted buckets of snow up to him while he continued to build on top. The senior...
...clock that evening people said that there was an eight-foot tall bust of Abraham Lincoln's head in the middle of the Quad...
...blur to me now--and it was 55 degrees outside. The sun blazed down upon the Quad for two beautifully warm days. The god's nose dripped and its coiffe sagged. It became Elvis again, then Lincoln in old age. On Friday it was an eight foot tall, five foot wide stump. By the weekend the putrid, freezer-burned grass emerged and all that was left of that magnificient thing was a perfectly circular patch of snow...
However, he had been playing basketball since being an extraordinarily tall fourth grader, and except for a short stint as a wide receiver on his high school football team, he didn't really want to do anything else...