Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tall chap at the far end of the table stood up. "It was a pretty bad day when we went," he said. "They have seven nets with different colored bands for the birds they catch. We got just two the whole day long--a Junco and a Tree Sparrow. We saw another one with a colored band, but we couldn't tell what color...
...drafting-probably to serve in some special services division, tote some such gone weapon as a guitar. Before rolling off in his Caddie, Elvis allowed that the intelligence test he had taken was a breeze. Groaned the bobby-soxers' golden calf: "Di'nt seem hard a'tall. Ah'm sure Ah passed...
With the trowel used by George Washington in laying the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building in 1793, Dwight Eisenhower last week spread the mortar for the cornerstone of the State Department's new $57.4 million, eight-story-tall, two-block-square headquarters in Washington. For the 8,000-odd staffers now crammed into State's Foggy Bottom headquarters or farmed out among 28 other office buildings, the prospect of at last being in one building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings...
Died. Theodor Koerner, 83, President of Austria since 1951 and former mayor of Vienna (1945-51), a tall, white-bearded onetime aristocrat who became a hero early in World War I, was made chief of staff of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Italian front, in 1918 took an oath of loyalty to the first Austrian Republic after the collapse of the empire; of a stroke; in Grinzing, near Vienna...
Edge of the City (Jonathan; MGM) is a movie with a message: a man is ten feet tall. That, in fact, is the title of the Robert Alan Aurthur TV play from which Author Aurthur adapted the movie. The unusual thing about the film is that the message is delivered by a Negro (Sidney Poitier) to a white man (John Cassavetes). Surprisingly enough in a Hollywood movie, the Negro is not only the white man's boss, but becomes his best friend, and is at all times his superior, possessing greater intelligence, courage, understanding, warmth and general adaptability...