Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each other, by the day-to-day problems and incompatibilities of routine occupation business. Last fortnight, Berlin's Kommandatura met to transact some of that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter at his side. Around the room sat some 30 experts and advisers. Major question on the agenda: Berlin's food supply...
...zoologists feel differently. Tall, husky Robert Cushman Murphy, Curator of Oceanic Birds at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and top U.S. expert on whales, last week predicted: if the floating factories again make their heavy prewar kills, commercial whaling will come to an end in five years...
There was C. C. Cambreleng, "the crony of Van Buren"; Roger B. ("Dred Scott") Taney, "the spearhead of radicalism in the new cabinet" ("a tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing...
...assignment was tall, quiet Captain (now Major) Abraham Baum. His task force: 301 men, 53 armored vehicles. They took off, thundering out obliquely from the main course of Patton's spectacular drive...
First on board to greet Mackenzie King were Britain's black-hatted, dapper Deputy Under Secretary for the Dominions Sir John Stephenson, and tall Frederic Hudd, Canada's Acting High Commissioner in Britain. Behind them came Southampton civic dignitaries, led by the wife of the city's ailing Lord Mayor, Job Charles Dyas. Primly the Lady Mayoress recited a prepared speech of thanks for clothing that Canada had sent to the city during the blitz...