Word: talling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk when tall, lanky Major Winston W. Ehrgott of New York City turned his jeep into the flagstone courtyard of the Greek headquarters at Komotini, in eastern Thrace. An American adviser with the Greek Army, he had been promised a chance to observe a cavalry patrol that would go out that night against nearby Communist Andartes (guerrillas). Inside headquarters, a beribboned Greek colonel offered him a glass of cognac. A night patrol? Surely the American was joking. The colonel explained: "We never move cavalry at night. Horses fall down; you might run into ambushes...
...Angeles got a new archbishop last week. Appointed by the Pope to tend the archdiocese's flock of 600,000 Roman Catholics was New York's tall, lean Coadjutor Archbishop James Francis Aloysius Mclntyre...
Parran's successor is tall, soft-spoken Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, 41, head of the National Cancer Institute, career man in the PHS and an Assistant Surgeon General (one of eight). Dr. Scheele takes over his "most important position" on April...
...winter activities slated for today will have to take on a distinctly indoor flavor, for the only ice in the Waban province will be that which customarily dilutes the contents of tall glasses. Come spring or high water, however, Wellesleyites plan to cap their weekend tonight with three Snow Balls (dances to those who refuse to stoop to the level of such semantics), and the crowning of a King of the Carnival...
...Abacus. Tall, California-born Ralph C. Coxhead, the company's tinkering board chairman, had never set out to start a lower-case revolution. A salesman of office machines, he once helped to get Hawaiian sugar growers to use mechanical calculators in place of the Chinese abacus. He did even better in New York, where, in partnership with his brother, Stuart (now president of the company), he set up Coxhead Corp. as an agency for German Mercedes calculators...