Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge scale and discovered that he weighs as much as 47 cans of Campbell's chicken-with-rice soup. Yvonne Younis, 7, lay down on a brobdingnagian desk top, twelve times normal size, beside a ruler in the same scale and found that she is 4 in. tall. Mark Stanton, 10, crawled under the flap of an Indian hut, looked around and then popped a bit of pemmican into his mouth...
Their goal is a 1,165-square-mile area off the offshore continental shelf, where natural gas is being tapped under water as deep as 600 feet. A collection of 100 offshore drilling rigs, some of them as tall as a 40-story building, are working on leases for which they have paid the federal government alone some $1.2 billion. Pushing slowly out to meet them are complex pipelaying barges that cost as much as $8,000,000 to build and $38,000 a day to operate. The area is "exploding with action," says William C. Keefe, president of Houston...
...tall lanky editor of the Paris Review has also offered up his body for three boxing rounds against Archie Moore, suffered humiliation across the tennis net from Pancho Gonzales, floundered in the watery wake of Swimmer Don Schollander, lost at bridge to Oswald Jacoby, and banged percussion instruments with the New York Philharmonic. He is, in effect, the actor of the average man's Walter Mitty dreams-the real-life agent of vicarious thrills. And now, in The Bogey Man, Plimpton records the humorous agonies of his experience as a mock-professional golfer...
...Greeks, had descended like a grey benediction across the Onassis-owned island of Skorpios. In the tiny chapel, Jackie stood quietly-almost in a daze-in her beige chiffon-and-lace dress, Ari in his dark blue business suit. John and Car oline, each carrying a single tall white candle, flanked them. As Archimandrite Polykarpos Athanassion intoned the solemn Greek of the nuptial liturgy, Jackie and Ari exchanged rings and wreaths of lemon blossoms, and drank wine from a single chalice. Then the priest led them round a table three times in the ritual dance of Isaiah. Traditionally...
...former journalist, is said to have been "a full-time member of the circle she re-creates so vividly," but her novel reads as if it had been re searched in back numbers of Modern Romances. All the women's-fiction cliches are present: men are "movie-hero tall and handsome"; there is nearly as much obstetrics as sex; crises arise from the misbehavior of children and the absence of husbands at birthday parties. Teddy White would never recognize the politics, although anybody over 13 should have no trouble recognizing the personnel...