Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago slaughterhouses, of Armour!" Ted Spear greets us. He is a tall, lean, middle aged man. "I represent the management and am responsible for public relations...
...Tall, broad-shouldered Fred Turner Jr., 62, has made millions out of oil wells, but his true love is a good thoroughbred. Says he: "I like to travel, but any place in the world becomes boring for me after a few days unless I have a purpose, and thoroughbreds are the answer." Last week, at Louisville's Churchill Downs, Turner's purpose paid off as his English-bred colt, Tomy Lee, won the Kentucky Derby and its $119,650 purse...
...tall young man from Tennessee's Maryville College stared at the girl across the net and served viciously. The ball came back. For the next 30 minutes his best drives kept coming back at him with maddening regularity. He began to net his returns and overdrive the baseline. At last he ran up to shake the hand of his conquerer: the University of Chattanooga's Marilyn Voges. The score...
...three tall, sand-colored towers of the Mosque of al-Azhar dominate the university, which was built in 972, only three years after Cairo was founded. A few years later the mosque became the classroom for Koranic law courses, and thus Islam's most famous center of learning was born. Al-Azhar weathered the crusades, but fell into academic stagnation after the Ottoman Turks occupied Egypt in 1517. For three centuries it knew no other role than to be the official interpreter of the Koran. There was no curriculum; a sheik simply sat by his favorite pillar and waited...
...wrenching break from the past has its disasters. The longest and best story, Goodbye, Columbus, is about Jews who have made the ascent from grubby Newark to the green pastures of suburban Short Hills, NJ. Mr. Patimkin is a rich manufacturer of kitchen sinks, "tall, strong, ungrammatical, and a ferocious eater." Son Ronald was an all-state basketball player in high school and a Big Ten star at Ohio State. Daughter Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs...