Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a waitress: "The tall Russian [Pirogov] was tusseling with two or maybe three men. They had him against a fence. The poker-faced fellow was putting up a terrific fight. You should have seen him rolling on the sidewalk with one of the men. They handcuffed him and the tall...
...years ago last week Hitler went to war against Poland. Four years ago Douglas MacArthur, with a cigarette holder in his mouth, stepped down from an airplane toward the tall grass waving in the south wind at Atsugi airfield, Japan. That was a time of hope...
...sole trustee, Gray sometimes takes extraordinary measures to insure something of the free discussion that competing newspapers would bring to Winston-Salem. A moderate drinker himself, Gray favors the legalization of liquor sales in dry Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Santford Martin, 63, the Journal's tall, pink-cheeked editor, is a lifelong teetotaler and editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers...
...world's newest capital. One morning last week, a black limousine stopped in front of the gleaming white, ultra-modern Teachers' College which carpenters and masons were enlarging to hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic. Out of the car stepped a tall, elderly man, in sober dark suit and high, starched collar. One or two of the workmen recognized him as he passed, and nodded gravely; he responded with a grin. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor-apparent of the Federal Republic, was on his way to his office, and to one of the most momentous...
...Symphony musicians had seen their tall, usually self-confident program producer, Don Gillis, looking like a colicky cat before-the last time, the day Arturo Toscanini first rehearsed Gillis' new Symphony 5^ (TIME, Sept...