Word: talled
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...born on April 5, 1937, at a time when my family was living on Morningside Avenue in Harlem. The dominant figure of my youth was a small man, 5 ft. 2 in. tall. In my mind's eye, I am leaning out the window of our apartment, and I spot him coming down the street from the subway station. He wears a coat and tie, and a small fedora is perched on his head. He has a newspaper tucked under his arm. His overcoat is unbuttoned, and it flaps at his sides as he approaches with a brisk, toes...
...Ripken." As Kelly recalls, "My reaction was, 'Who's Cal Ripken?' But a couple of months later, I was in a restaurant where he was signing, and when I thanked him for being so nice to my mom, he said, 'You must be Kelly. You're 6 ft. tall, blond, you have green eyes, you went to the University of Maryland, and you work for the airlines.' The next day he called." Kelly and Cal were married four years later. They now have two children: Rachel, who was born in November 1989, and Ryan, who was born in July...
...forget Lonesome Dove. It is not much more than a good tall tale, dust glowing in the sunset after horsemen have passed by. But McMurtry found a way to retell the worn old western stories of lawmen and gunmen. The grubby, lonely, smelly God-awfulness of the Old West fascinated him, and he raised it to the level of myth, used it to paint his scenery. It is no accident that Lonesome Dove begins, "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one ... 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking...
When it comes to Fuhrman, Los Angeles correspondent Sylvester Monroe reports, "everyone is running for the tall grass." Today, Robert Tourtelot, Fuhrman's attorney, held a press conference to tell the world that he had dropped his friendless client because he was "profoundly disgusted and horrified" by the racial slurs and personal philosophy contained on tapes of the former LAPD detective. "This is simply a matter of trying to get away from the taint of Fuhrman," says Monroe. "But it's a bit disingenuous. All of these people, from Marcia Clark to the Los Angeles Police Department, knew about Fuhrman...
...reason why paleontologists are reconsidering some of their ideas about why the earliest humans stood up. According to one theory, as a change in climate transformed Africa's moist forests into drier grasslands, evolution favored hom inids that could stand upright in order to spot predators lurking in the tall grasses. Other researchers argue that an upright posture lessened the heat the animals absorbed from the fierce tropical sun. Still others believe bipedalism freed the hands for carrying food or children over long distances. Such explanations appear to share a common flaw. A growing body of evidence strongly suggests that...