Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right now the Bruins are in the driver's seat as far as the Ivy League race is concerned, and getting by them will be a pretty tall order," Harvard coach Bruce Munro said yesterday...
Stripped of the yard-tall rabbit-fur hat and German military uniform he wore in high school, unable to use fire batons in daylight, and handicapped by the cold winds of Boston, Tuckwiller cannot put on a precision Big Ten show here. But he practices about eight hours a week, working out routines that will entertain rather than dazzle the audience...
...implications of the system were lucidly reflected last month by the peculiar turnabout of Committeeman George F. Olesen. Olesen decided last spring that he wouldn't run for reelection, and the Committee is losing its most colorful though hardly its most progressive members. Olesen is a tall, slightly stooped young man, who roams around the Committee room during meetings, whispering messages into his fellow Independent's ears, always appearing to be lining up the votes for some obscure maneuver. He cross-examines witnesses with the pugnacious gusto of a TV lawyer, and has attacked Mrs. Ackermann with such virulence that...
...Angkor-a mysterious, romantic relic of the great Khmer civilization that vanished in war and bloodshed some time in the 15th century. Besides barring newsmen for most of the stay, the Cambodian hosts set up a "picnic lunch" (five dishes and two wines) for the tourists under tall hardwood trees, charmed them with the soft sounds of tiny gongs, cymbals and bamboo flutes. "Magnificent, magnificent," was Jackie's description of the ruins...
...think anybody's going to beat Penn," Munro said yesterday. "All we can do--which is a tall order in itself--is to knock off Brown a week from Saturday...