Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heroes. But there was still heat, smoke and fearful confusion upstairs. Firemen worked until they dropped in dark, furniture-cluttered labyrinths. Nameless heroes appeared. A tall, well-dressed man knocked on scores of doors, chatted coolly and politely, led the terrified to safety. A sailor roamed the smoking corridors knocking out fear-maddened men, dragging them limply to fire escapes. And there were more furtive figures-looters moved in the confusion, rifling suitcases and running their hands carefully over the dead...
...windswept stubble field on the outskirts of Regina, nine tractors were lined up, Indian file. Around one tractor and the "one-way cultivator" hitched to it, a crowd of 300 farmers, implement makers and Regina businessmen kept their eyes on the professor, a tall, husky man, clad in much-washed cotton trousers and shirt, a sweat-stained felt...
...Chicago Tribune's tall, tired-looking Photographer Frederick Giese had been covering courts for eleven years. He had stuck his head into Judge Joseph Sabath's court about a zillion times. What had he seen? Well, brother, he'd never seen no Gypsy Rose Lee dancing in the jury box. Just jerks he had to photograph. But since it was his life work he looked in again one day last week. Nope. The joint looked haunted. Nobody inside but a black-haired young guy, a blonde dame, and a lot of empty seats...
...charge of the Japanese farms is a tall, tanned, 38-year-old Kentucky farmer, Lieut. Colonel Ewing Elliott, head of the Army's hydroponic projects and now attached to the Eighth Army. He will use about 1,000 Japanese workers-including agricultural students-when the project this fall begins to yield its tomatoes (most successful hydroponic crop), lettuce, radishes, onions, cucumbers, peppers. Colonel Elliott thinks that the farms will not only help keep the occupation troops healthy, but may teach the Japs a valuable lesson. Only 14% of their crowded, rocky island is arable land...
...tall, blond Father Franz Stock, prewar head of the German Catholic Church in Paris. During the Nazi occupation he served as priest in prisons and hospitals, and administered last rites to thousands of Frenchmen executed by the Nazis. He visited them in their cells, rode with them to their execution, buried them, sent their belongings to their families...