Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall order; but anything less might well turn the Marshall Plan's success into fatal failure...
...tall, gaunt man stood up before a convention of farm-equipment dealers in Washington last week and made what he thought would be a scarcely noticed speech at a barely noticed meeting. Instead it cost him his job. The man was Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, titular head of the President's economic advisers. He began his speech by skeptically questioning a glittering prediction by his economist colleague, Leon Keyserling, of a $350 billion national income by 1958, with a $4,000 minimum a year for almost every family. Mr. Truman later used this as the basis...
Levy, a French exchange student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, told police he was walking down Garden Street toward Radcliffe when a man about five feet six inches tall walked up to him and asked for a cigarette...
...yard of two for the first down, he gave the ball to his tall back who just put his head down and bulled his way through...
...Know anybody about six feet tall, maybe 190-200 pounds, not fleshy you know, but hard, hard like, like maybe don Trimble?" That's track coach Jaakko Mikkola's latest line. He's in quest for material to build up his weight squad, sadly depleted as a result of last June graduation...