Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Warsaw negotiators were old hands at the game in which they found themselves. Tall U.S. Ambassador Jacob D. Beam, 50. characterized by some of his colleagues as "the stubbornest man in the Foreign Service.'' had, in his time, negotiated with Nazis, Russians. Yugoslavs and Indonesians. Affable. Berlin-educated Wang Ping-nan was a veteran of the 1954 Geneva conference that ended the Indo-Chinese war and of 73 subsequent bargaining sessions in Geneva with U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson...
Minutes after bumping down on the scrubby landing strip at little (pop. 1,440) Benson ("Used to have to run the cows off here." he said), the Senator, a tall, bronzed, lean-jawed, silver-haired man of 49. was shaking hands with sleepy-eyed shift workers at the Apache Powder Corp. plant. The day wore swiftly on, the miles slipped by. At Merrill's grocery in the Mormon crossroads of St. David (pop. 10), Goldwater paused for breakfast-a bottle of Coke-before hustling on to a campaign appearance in rural Pomerene (pop. 150). Then came...
...Tommy Aaron, playing in his first National Amateur, the week was as refreshing as a breeze off the nearby Pacific. Virtually unknown outside of the South, the University of Florida senior had nothing to lose and everything to win, and he played that way. Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), he banged out drives of 250 yds., canned his putts with ease and never trailed an opponent, including Quarter Finalist Dick Chapman, former U.S. (1940) and British (1951) Amateur champ. "The greens are like billiard tables," chuckled Tommy. "All you have to do is start the ball...
...from the Harvard medical school. It was while the prince was a student at Harvard that his son, Phumiphon Aduldet, the present King of Thailand, was born in Cambridge-perhaps the only king born in the U.S. But these are recorded facts, nothing more. The legends are few, the tall tales rare...
...prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently revolves into a "tall mushroom," a newly screwed-in electric bulb lights up with "the hideous instancy of a dragon's egg hatching in one's bare hand." It is the strength of Nabokov's imagination that makes the characters in these stories live. It is the weakness of his characters that they...