Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain pressure that was exerted on University officials." This time he stayed here long enough to write two Pudding shows and to direct the destinies of the Lampoon, he said; he was about to have his connections severed again when he joined the Canadian Army. (He was too tall to join the A.E.F...
...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
Beneath a huge mural showing the temptation of Adam by Eve, tall, husky Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting U.N. mediator for Palestine, sat impassively at the head of the table, with a cigarette dangling, as usual, from his lips. Bushy-haired Dr. Walter Eytan of Israel's Foreign Office smoked a pipe. Both of the colonels from Egypt puffed cigarettes...
Thirsty Sudd. Below Lake Albert lies the Sudd, a vast swamp choked with papyrus and other tall grasses. The White Nile seeps slowly through this tangle, and loses nearly half its water in the process. Engineers plan to cut a canal 186 miles long, to bypass the water-stealing Sudd...
Into the presidency of the rich Union Pacific, third largest U.S. railroad, stepped a railroader's railroader. At 53, tall, taciturn Arthur E. Stoddard had reached the top, after a typical railroader's climb from the very bottom...