Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collaborationist press, sent his son into the German army, his brother into the SS. For Corinne's affections, there existed no national (and scarcely any numerical) boundary. She gave birth to the daughter of a Luftwaffe captain. Abetz turned to other mistresses. With the last of them, a tall, dressy French art student, he was arrested in October 1945 in occupied Germany...
...remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen a few twisted bits of metal and the reinforced concrete foundations of the tall steel tower that the bomb blew away as vapor...
...runway at Ohio's Akron-Canton airport one day this week stood a bright yellow, converted C87 that was once used by General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U.S. Marines. Waiting for the take-off was a tall, sad-eyed man who was indeed the very model of a modern full-blown general, or admiral-or at least something mineral. His milky-blue uniform with brass buttons and bright gold stars & bars suggested considerable rank, if an indeterminate branch of service. But there was nothing indeterminate about the man inside the uniform. He was Samuel Floyd Keener...
Reading Histories. While this bargaining over his royal personality was going on, Leopold was catching up on some reading. One day last week, his tall blond figure clad in grey jacket, flannel trousers and narrow-brimmed green felt hat, he motored in his Bugatti sport car to a big Geneva bookstore. He came away with Nehru's Glimpses of World History, Churchill's Their Finest Hour and Laski's American Democracy...
...last of two evening interviews with Gandhi ended only two days before Gandhi's assassination. Sheean has made a painful effort to report everything that was said. He is conscious of the incongruity of the meeting: the tall red-faced