Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five feet tall with my shoes on, and a second-year mechanical engineering student...
...into the stormy sea, and a dozen aircraft joined the search. It was no ordinary ship, buttressed with armor plate, throbbing with power and bristling with the safety devices of a modern age, that faced the furies of Hurricane Carrie some 500 miles southwest of the Azores, but a tall and graceful relic of an older and braver day: the 3,103-ton, four-masted bark Pamir...
...visible world." But what looked like a new dawn for European art quickly clouded with the rumors of war. Wassily Kandinsky began introducing cannons into his abstractions. Paul Klee's expressions of his subconscious began to reflect fear. Klee's Blue Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with blank-faced men, women and children, before marching off to the front, where he was killed immediately. Marc completed his paintings of trapped, wounded animals, and died a soldier's death at Verdun...
...Tall, spare, drill-pipe-straight Michael Late (after the doctor who delivered him) Benedum got into the oil business in the days when "anybody could drill for oil that was of a mind to. I don't remember ever meeting a geologist or even hearing the word." Benedum, son of a West Virginia cabinetmaker, teamed up with an oilfield roughneck named Joe Trees, and hit oil in Pleasants County, West Va. in 1895. He was soon making $1,500 to $2,000 a month from the property, and drilling more wells, at one point brought in eleven straight producers...
Opening the studio doors, he revealed easels and canvases, wire frames and modelling clay. Each room is painted a different color and white woodwork accents the drawings, oils, and primitive handtools placed about the walls. In one room, a tall model awkwardly finished undressing while one of Lawson's pupils adjusted her easel and brushes...