Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though the 17-acre area was being rapidly leveled, U.N. still did not know just how soon it would be able to build the tall stone plinths of its permanent home. A bill to lend U.N. $65 million had finally been approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Yet U.N.'s bill stood a chance of getting lost in the shuffle of unfinished congressional business. Said James Dawson, U.N. Coordinator of Construction: "We will need every break to be ready for U.N.'s fall meeting...
...University of Wisconsin's Frederic Austin Ogg, 70, tall, shy political scientist, co-author of the widely used Ogg & Ray textbooks on government (total sales: 1,500,000 copies), longtime managing editor of the American Political Science Review, a faculty member for 34 years...
...York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn't say a man 5 feet 7 inches tall with a mustache [see cut'], who was a graduate of Georgetown . . . That would have been a little too obvious...
London audiences have packed Albert Hall nine times this season to hear Pianist Eileen Joyce. One thing they like about her is her showmanship. Tall, green-eyed Pianist Joyce makes the most of her looks by frequent changes of dress and hairdo between numbers ("Sequins for Debussy," she once explained deadpan to a reporter, "red and gold for Schumann; hair up for Beethoven, down for Grieg...
...Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker and his gal Sluefoot...