Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story was written by William Doerner, edited by Marshall Loeb and researched by Claire Barnett, all of whom have firm ideas about what Nader should level his sights on next. For Doerner, who stands 6 ft. 5½ in., the big issue is "the enormous conspiracy against tall people. I can't ride in the back seat of any car, I can't find clothes to fit, and shaving mirrors always seem to be fixed at the level of my belt. It's a plot to keep us unclad and bedraggled." For the life...
Then sheep and goats were easy to recognize, local fauna; good meant Giles the shoemaker taking care of the village ninny, evil Count ffoulkes who in his tall donjon Indulged in sinister eccentricities...
...milling around a bulldozer they had stopped at Waller Creek before it could do a lot of damage. I helped guard the creek between classes during the day, and made a sign that I tied to a tree- just a small tree- a sapling not more than twelve feet tall. It switched around Shakespeare's tombstone epitaph to: "Cursed be he that moves our trees; Blessed be he that leaves them be." Tuesday night people slept in the trees so that the university couldn't send out a midnight wrecking crew...
Nunn set the scene in the half-light and intermittent flashes of the storm, and had a huge (about 12 feet tall) and very realistic bear rise out of the blackness behind Antigonus, pick him bodily up, and carry him off, the final action drowned in a scream of loud and hopeless terror, amplified, so that it reverberated in the ear drums. The whole thing was terrifying and convincing, as it should be. The switch, then, to the Shepherd and his son the Clown, was entirely in keeping with the Shepherd's words...
...reply. Johnson was right. Despite her wounds, Marilyn Rohs informed police that she thought she could identify her assailants, especially the tall one. She mentioned a plumber who had done work at the Rohs apartment, and a search there uncovered a receipt for plumbing work signed by Johnson. He was picked up, and his arrest led police to Smith. Separately, the two suspects were brought to Marilyn Rohs' hospital bed, where she identified each in turn. Although Marilyn Rohs is now dead, her identification may help convict her accused killers...