Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels were lit with a kind of ecstasy. There were vigorous blond students and tough-looking workers among them, but many seemed pitifully young. A correspondent noted a boy who could not have been more than ten years old holding himself at the ready with a rifle as tall as himself. Beside him was a 15-year-old girl with a submachine gun and a forage cap on her head. Grey with the fatigue of four days' ceaseless fighting, almost falling from exhaustion, they solemnly welcomed the foreigners: "We greet you in the name of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters...
Youth Party, the Revolutionary Defense Committee. Already there was a "revolutionary personality" in the shape of tall, blond Major General Pal Maleter, an ex-Horthy-regime soldier who had deserted to the Russians and been parachuted back to Hungary during World War II. Like tens of thousands of other Hungarian soldiers (some said just about the entire Hungarian army of 150,000), he had thrown his lot with the rebels. He made a hero of himself by leading the stubborn defense of the Maria Theresia barracks...
Tiley, 215-pound sophomore, showed his ability to perform the exacting fullback duties in Coach Charlie Caldwell's complicated single wing pattern in the opening game against Colgate. Against Columbia, Morris, just a tall, awkward sub for the brilliant Royce Flippin last year, took over and scored three touchdowns. A week later Mottley, whose name isn't in the pre-season brochure, sparked the attack...
Florentine artists and students took the protest into the streets and the Italian press, from Communist left to Fascist right, whooped to their support. The climax came when four artists barricaded themselves in the bare cell atop Florence's 280-ft.-tall Tower of Arnulfo, announced that they would not come down until the government surrendered...
Discussion proceeded, as motions to close debate lost repeatedly. One tall member protested, "Four more long-winded members and we wouldn't get out till midnight...