Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever they have operated in the Congo, they are known as "the white giants." But for all their fierce reputation, Colonel Jean ("Black Jack") Schramme and his band of white mercenaries are beginning to look a lot less tall. Not that the Congolese army is cutting them down to size; the swaggering "meres" could probably hang on for a while at Bukavu, the old resort town on the Congo's eastern frontier where they holed up three weeks ago. President Joseph Mobutu's regulars are bothering them so little that the only raiding that the mercenaries have been...
...They have one of the League's best defensive lines (reinforced now with Bubba Smith, an amazing giant from Michigan State who played the whole game at defensive end), the League's classiest (if not best) quarterback, and the surest group of receivers in the business. That's a tall order for the Patriots, who have been scrambling to put some kind of consistent offense-defensive secondary ent offense and defensive secondary together...
...cause of it all is the tall marula tree, which right after the rainy season bears a succulent, plumlike fruit that the elephants love. Local Africans use the marula fruit to make a highly potent beer, but one elephant can eat enough fruit in a day to supply a whole village. Then the elephant goes to a water hole and drinks gallons of water. The result: its stomach immediately becomes a huge still in which the fruit ferments and forms alcohol. The elephant becomes hopelessly drunk, reeling around wildly and often standing up on its hind legs to reach more...
...headquaaattters" and how Himself is a shuuuuurrr winner. The only ones that don't have fun are the ones working for Logue and John Winthrop Sears. They're so damn busy convincing themselves that they're saving the city from the crumbs, they don't have any fun, a'tall...
...spreading the faith ever since. During a recent tour of the East Coast, she attended services at the New Hope church, then drove her Mercedes into Manhattan to conduct her own kind of revival meeting at the Copacabana. Her songbook is a primer course in variety and good taste. Tall and wickedly curvy in a snug, deep-dish gown, she swoops down into gutsy little growls for Walk On By, soars up into high, hallelujah quavers for What the World Needs Now Is Love...