Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bayard Robb may be playing in the number one slot. Robb has been teetering between baseball and tennis for the past few weeks and his decision is still in doubt. Tall, rangy, and a hitter or a placer at will, he has displayed the greatest prowess on the squad thus...
...alligators was imported for the occasion from Dana Hall, the other belongs to a College student. Neither animal measures more than 13 inches in length, counting the tall which Pleus calls a particularly dangerous weapon, "if they...
Much of the answer depended on one man: Alcide de Gasperi, Premier of Italy, and head of the Christian Democratic Party. Around him, whether they liked him or not, whether he liked them or not, all anti-Communists were rallied. This tall, lanky man with chilly blue eyes, aggressive nose, a wide, grimly compressed mouth, was the bearer of Christian Democracy's standard-a red cross on a white shield, with the legend: "Liberty...
...Seminole Club. Last week, he began to think about moving his wife and three kids up to Mamaroneck, N.Y. (where he has a summertime job as pro at Winged Foot). But first, Claude Harmon wanted to take a vacation. He went up to Augusta, Ga., to swap a few tall stories and play golf...
Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...