Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LONDON is the town of the tall red double-decker buses, the buses which always appear to be on the verge of overturning as they twist top-heavily around the City's corners and through its narrow streets. The only person to keep his balance is the ticket collector, who passes up and down the aisle with easy poise, bending over each seat and rolling out a ticket from the machine hitched to his belt...
...late to rent any formal duds, Cliburn phoned Lady Bird's press secretary Liz Carpenter, whose husband Leslie matches Cliburn's 6-ft. 4-in. height. Sorry, said Liz, Leslie's tails were at the tailors. "But I've just been talking to a tall man," she added. "If you can come to the White House you can have the best we have." The string-beany pianist zipped over and with the aid of L.BJ.'s valet found the more-than-ample presidential tails. "They look fine," said L.B.J. as Cliburn stopped by to thank...
...Greek Theater of Mills College, Student President Deborah Campbell caught the essence of the occasion in terms that only students at a women's school can fully appreciate. Said she: "There's a new man around campus." Indeed there is. Last week Robert Joseph Wert, 45, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome former vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at nearby Stanford, was inaugurated the ninth president of the West's best-and almost only-nonsectarian liberal arts college for girls. He succeeds the retiring C. Easton Rothwell, who led the school for eight years...
They're a pleasure to watch--the short stocky Gomez from Gambia and the tall, lean Bogovich from Yugoslavia. Together they can probably do all that can be done with or to a soccer ball...
...friends in a trip to Cambodia next month and would like to go along. ∙∙∙ Five thousand miles from home, having just played a concert at the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Artur Rubinstein, 78, was greeting visitors in his dressing room. Among them was a tall fellow who walked up and said: "Permit me to introduce myself. I am your partner." "My partner?" asked the pianist in bewilderment. "Of course," replied the fellow. "I'm Sheldon Cohen, U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue." Rubinstein thought fast: "Hah! This time you've made a mistake. Right...