Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work for Senator Barry Goldwater in Washington a year later as an administrative assistant. Among other things, Goldwater taught the young lawyer how to fly an airplane. In 1964, Burch served as a deputy director of Goldwater's presidential campaign and later as Republican national chairman. His tall, rugged good looks (a colleague recently called him the "Marlboro Man from Arizona") and breezy Western manner made him one of the more personable figures in Goldwater's campaign. Burch has gained the reputation of being a skilled organizer and an imperturbable man in the face of ridicule...
...increased taxes it would have contributed to the district. Reason: the plant might pollute the clear desert air. At Mercer Island in Lake Washington, a suburb of Seattle, residents faced another difficult choice. Did they want to preserve a wooded park? Or did they want to bulldoze the tall conifers to make way for a nine-hole community golf course? The voters of the community decided by a decisive 2-to-1 margin that conservation was more important than recreation...
Died. Frank Goad Clement, 49, three-term Governor of Tennessee; in an automobile accident; in Nashville, Tenn. Tall, handsome, a devout Methodist and Bible-spouting orator ("If a man finds his politics and religion don't mix, there is something wrong with his politics"), Clement won Tennessee's governorship in 1952 at the age of 32; two years later he was easily reelected. A moderate in the diehard South, he rose to national prominence as the Democratic Convention keynoter in 1956 with his "How long, America, O how long?" speech, ripping into "Vice-Hatchetman" Nixon. A third term...
...Besret, a tall, Rome-trained doctor of theology, encouraged his monks to mix with people in the bistros and shops of neighboring villages. At monastery masses, the traditional Host was replaced with crusty Breton bread passed around in baskets. "We have no right to do something simply because it is written in a book," Dom Besret explained. "It must be true to life. Otherwise, it's only theater...
...tall, pale. pretty girl identifies herself as Elizabeth Gardner of Seattle. She is one of those who had been shot in Wednesday night's action. As she begins to talk, she makes the mistake of looking at exactly where...