Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco nightclub and for the "I" Company marines who first occupied it. Each time, the marines detected the guerrillas with new, man-spotting radar devices that are emplaced all over the hill. Modeled after the dish-shaped radar used on airport control towers, the devices are around 5 ft. tall and are highly sensitive to movements by troops...
...factors," said Frei. Chile is one of the best-educated nations in Latin America, and its voters, with a long tradition of constitutional rule, tend to listen to the issues. There is a rising middle class, weary of inflation and do-nothing government. More essentially, it is Frei himself. Tall and gaunt, he is disarmingly unpretentious, a man who speaks but does not orate. What he says comes across with precision and a sure dedication- and that is apparently what Chileans want. "Few in Chile today," says one diplomat, "can argue with such a clear recognition of what the problems...
...Black Englishman." The man who won at tiddlywinks is Seretse Khama, 43, a tall, bearded Oxonian who 16 years ago threw away his right to the paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry an English girl. Seretse, even then known as "the black Englishman" to friend and foe alike, was studying law in London in 1947 when he met Ruth Williams, a blonde, 24-year-old insurance clerk who lived with her parents and sister in suburban Lewisham...
...brilliant flame, 700 ft. tall, towered over the swampy coast near Brunswick, Ga., as the loudest continuous sound ever made by man shook both land and sea. For 64 roaring seconds the gigantic flame rivaled the sunlight while a column of light brown smoke climbed high in the sky. Then the fire stopped abruptly. The first static test of the most powerful rocket motor ever built was a complete success...
...wife of Malcolm X had several microphones shoved in her face and was asked: 'How did you feel when your husband was assassinated?' How in God's name would anyone think she felt? Incidentally, I thought her dignified answer made her look ten feet tall and the questioners very small indeed...