Word: tallest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each of the seven red-funneled tugs belonging to San Francisco's Crowley Maritime Corp. is towing two barges. The loads are the heaviest and tallest ever. From a distance, the grumbling 136-ft.-long tugs look as if they are pulling an entire city across the top of the world. Welded to the deck of one of the barges is a ten-story-high compressor building that will be used to help reinject gas beneath the ground. It looks like a modest cathedral and is trailed by a second barge carrying a fully assembled drilling complex that will...
...Marvel Comics fan knows, climbing the 1,454 ft. west face of Chicago's Sears Tower is a job for Spider-Man. Still, early-morning crowds outside the world's tallest building last week were amazed to see, high above them, Professional Stuntman Daniel Goodwin, 25, decked out in the bright red-and-blue costume of that nimble comic-book hero. With 40-m.p.h. winds whipping around him and 50 Ibs. of climbing equipment on his back, Goodwin made the ascent in some 7½ hrs. He hoisted himself on metal hooks that he wedged into the slots...
Friday night, the Crimson encountered the giants of Syracuse, a team ranked second in the East and boasting a starting five all taller than 5 ft. 11 in. The hoopsters fought valiantly despite the absence of their tallest player, center Elaine Holpuch (sidelined with a hurt ankle), and fell by a narrow margin in their most difficult contest this season...
That plan was directed mostly at Syracuse's two tallest players, 5'11" forward Kim Dick and 6-ft. center Maryann Mogish. But Harvard's 6-ft. center Elaine Holpuch and sophomore Nancy Boutilier were both sidelined with ankle injuries, leaving the squad bereft of Holpuch's rebounding talents and Boutilier's consistent dumps from the outside...
...minute outing was especially pleasing to McLaughlin, who hadn't counted on the tallest hoopster to play any kind of role until next year...