Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...
...take over big Louisiana State (enrollment: 10,000) on one condition: that he have full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most of them appointees of "reform" Governors Sam Houston Jones and James Houston Davis, had been looking for an out-of-state educator who was neither a veteran...
British Roman Catholics are also making an intensive drive for the lost and strayed. Under the leadership of tall, scholarly Father John Carmel Heenan, 43, superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, mission teams are paying flying visits to 1,700 Catholic parishes in England and Wales. In each of them missionaries stay from one to three weeks, visiting every Catholic in the area, holding church services twice daily. Father Heenan advises his missionaries never to complain to parishioners about lack of attendance. Says he: "A church that is half empty is half full...
Wiswall, a tall blond youth, allegedly evaded police after trying to crack the safe at the Grille almost two weeks ago. Two accomplices were arrested at the time...
...than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred win by a neck...