Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second period Lowell bounced back as a crafty Dunster quick kick bounded off a lineman's tall and was recovered on the three-yard line by Lowell. Two plays sufficed for the score, Fred Donahoe bucking over. A pass, Bob Woodruff to Donahoe, made the score 7 to 6 at the half...
...Sure Do." Last week Gus arrived in New York, a tall, weather-tough man with crinkled eyes and a face reddened in the high mountain winds. He proudly donned his postmasters' convention badge, dutifully attended the sessions, listened gravely as Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson declared that the post office faced a record $550 million deficit, that Congress should overhaul its "horse & buggy rates." Penny postcards, Donaldson pointed out, cost the department 2.6? to print, sell, and handle, and 95% of them are sold to advertisers who flood the mails with them "by the billions." Gus nodded soberly...
...sent a tall, sturdily built Russian in the uniform of a major in the MVD (secret police) to question the fugitives. Pirogov led off with the statement that he wasn't going back to Russia until there was a change in the regime. When the major kept referring to a "forced landing," Pirogov corrected him sharply: "There was no forced landing about it. I landed on U.S. territory because I intended to. This was an escape, not a forced landing...
When Brookhaven's pile begins to work, radioactive gases will be released, like the smoke, from the top of a tall stack. Since gas behaves about the same as smoke, the scientists will figure out in advance how to operate their pile safely-and how to keep its radioactive gases out of Long Island society...
Entrants must be from 5 ft. 3 in. to 5 ft. 9 in. tall (with heels) and the judges claim they will be rated primarily on poise, carriage, and style. Nothing is known as to the motif of the clothes worn, but it seems doubtful that anything as drastic as the Parisian imports will he exhiluted...