Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upstairs with none of the awkward embarrassment that clogged his youth. Wilt shot up to his spectacular height between the ages of 13 and 16, but he always tried to trim himself down to the rest of the boys by insisting he was only 6 ft. n in. tall. Now he can even poke fun at his "little brother" Wilbert, who is only 6 ft. 5 in. "Nothing to him," says Wilt. When a stranger accosts him and says, "Wilt, can I ask you a question?", The Stilt proudly interrupts. "That's right," he says. "Over seven feet...
...spiderweb gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will...
...production, refining, transport and storage facilities. This would bring in still other industries, open a bright new era for Alaska that might well make the territory selfsupporting. But last week the best-laid plans of the oilmen were held up by a single, formidable obstacle: the big (7 ft. tall, 10 ft. long), shaggy Alaskan moose...
...delighted in sketching trees against the sky, boned up to pass the academic exams for Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts. But once entered, he was convinced by exhibitions of Cezanne and Picasso that academicism was not for him, went home to work on his own. Within a year, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Artist Soulages was in uniform as an artilleryman, after the fall of France worked as a farm laborer...
...appointed date two weeks ago, the tall bird returned to New Haven and rendezvoused with the owl, and the illicit migration was underway. In New York the two birds got stoned in the Stork Club, but were ejected by Sherman Billingsley when he discovered that Thresky was not a stork. Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland was more hospitable (see cut), but again the tipsy birds were booted when they began squawking and hooting in time with the music...