Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused was tall, bespectacled, 51-year-old Waclaw Lipinski. His life story contained other acts of courage. In 1939, when Warsaw was besieged by the Wehrmacht, Lipinski repaired the damaged Radio Warsaw, so that it could keep broadcasting hourly bulletins and Chopin's Polonaise Militaire until the end. He escaped into Hungary, returned to Poland's underground...
...delegates sang "Ioway, that's where the tall corn grows," Allan Kline climbed the platform and slung an arm around old Ed O'Neal. Ed's eyes were slightly moist. To photographers, he said: "You all be careful not to catch mah false teeth!" Far back in the crowded ballroom, one of the delegates yelled: "So long, Ed!" Ed crackled, and waved...
...Lausanne railway station platform last week there was a tender parting. The goodbyes were perhaps not forever. Teddybear-tall (6 ft. 2 in.), shy King Michael of Rumania kissed his girl goodbye. The girl was long-legged Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
...modern Sherlock Holmes, showed what a doctor can do when he uses his nerve and knowledge to catch criminals. For nearly four decades, connoisseurs of real-life British murders could be sure that the case was really top-drawer when it included the appearance on the witness stand of tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Sir Bernard and his quiet acknowledgment: "I am the senior pathologist of the Home Office...
Wallace was almost six feet tall, weighed only 130 Ibs., had hawklike features and a glance so concentrated as to seem ferocious. He got a job copying in a lawyer's office. Electrified by reading Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, he studied Spanish, began writing a novel about Montezuma in a blank book one wintry night. He became a political reporter, for substantial fees helped lazy legislators draft their bills, became second sergeant in his home-town rifle company, and failed his bar examination. "Goodbye," said his father, when he marched away to the Mexican War, "come back...