Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's advisers, and the European statesmen, are considering; but the plan must be sold first, and few real attempts in that direction have been made. To convince a people already groaning under their tax load that even more gifts abroad are not only necessary, but desirable, is a tall order, and there can be no better time to start than...
...Tall, ash-blonde, Vassar-grad Letitia Baldridge, daughter of Nebraska's ex-Congressman Malcolm Baldridge, was worried. Rain (always a possibility in London) would absolutely ruin her navy blue straw with velvet ribbons and the grey silk print she had bought in Paris. Then, too, there was the devastating possibility that a member of the Royal Family might speak to her. "I just hope to goodness," said Tish, "that I haven't a plate of food in my hand if I have to curtsy...
...Tall and ruggedly built, Bishop Roy has a scholarly, ascetic personality which brought him his only criticism from the troops: "He's much too saintly for us." He took his B.A. at Laval University when only 18. After ordination, he studied in Paris, returned to Canada (with doctorates in both theology and philosophy) to a teaching position at Laval. After helping to write a new constitution for the university and carrying it to Rome for the Pope's acceptance, he became Laval's chaplain...
...armed man, described by Havelock as 24, of dark complexion, 5 feet 7 inches tall, with greasy black hair brushed straight back, forced him abruptly into the room, and had him remove his clothes and lie down...
...realistic portrait would show a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), ruddy, 200-lb. man of 66 who can still get into his World War I uniform. The haughty eyes, ice-water blue, would window an inordinately shy, insufferably proud, incredibly prejudiced mind, acutely aware of its heritage...