Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...
...guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans who fought from Obregón's armored trains-they call for Adelita...
...home in Oregon's big timber country where she grew up, perky little Elsa Berner used to hear tall tales about a fellow named Paul Bunyan. She never understood why her schoolteachers talked a lot about Hercules and Thor, but never mentioned Paul...
Praise from a Doctor. The managing editors criticized the A.P. for too much "surface reporting" of foreign news, for overwriting and overqualifying domestic stories, and for its practice of sending out confidential notes on off-the-record subjects. Tall Edward Kennedy, who got into A.P.'s doghouse for breaking the German surrender story, and is now managing editor of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press, said: "It's absurd for the A.P. to send 'confidential' news notes to 1,200 papers. It won't add to the confidence readers have in newspapers...
...main difference between the Captain Midnight and Superman shows is that the Captain can't "leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...