Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ring finger from at least the mid-portion (slicing off the first joint will not do). Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders-including homosexuality and bedwetting -each accounted for 11%. So did being 20% overweight or underweight. Bad eyesight claimed 6%, while 7,600 beat the system by being too tall and 3,800 others because they were too short (the upper limit is now 6 ft. 8 in., the lower limit 5 ft.). A surprisingly large number-22,800-were kept out by bad cases of acne...
...test our sensibilities, change our perspectives, put us on. Pop Art (one of Warhol's babies) may be dead, but the girl next to me at Winthrop House still showed up in the standard day-glo pink plastic skirt offset by a pale blue paisley blouse and the usual tall black boots...
...that Erving Goffman describes in his book Asylums. One student still tells anecdotes about the people he met. Another said, "You could have great times there. People sat around reading I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There were some great tall-tale tellers...
Still, the allies moved on toward the imperial city, the seat of Viet Nam's government and a center of its learning during the 19th century. There stood the palace complex, with its graceful red and gold buildings and pagoda roofing, its grounds of tall shade trees and frangipani, and its collections of bleu d'Hué porcelain. It was the most beautiful section of Hué still standing. It was also an eerie place to die, and its Communist defenders evidently decided to get out while they could. They left behind an unexploded shell near the fragile...
...Poet-Polemicist Paul Goodman, who "looked like the sort of old con who had first gotten into trouble in the Y.M.C.A., and hadn't spoken to anyone since." Arrested himself during the opening hours of the Pentagon siege, Mailer winds up in the same paddy wagon with a tall, ferocious American Nazi, and stares him down in the inevitable Mailerian confrontation of wills. "You Jew bastard," shouts the Nazi. "Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only a bit embarrassed. But for Mailer's reportorial eye and his caustic comments on an America overwhelmed by institutionalism, his version of the Pentagon...