Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morgenthau, who died last week at 75 of a lifelong heart ailment and a kidney condition, the only appraisals that really mattered came from the man he revered, and occasionally preached at. And to F.D.R., the tall, dour gentleman-farmer who peered frostily at the world through pince-nez was sometimes "Henry the Morgue," but also "one of two of a kind"-the other being Roosevelt himself. Eleanor referred to him as "Franklin's conscience." In exchange, Morgenthau was the only Cabinet member to address the President regularly as "Franklin...
Oral Types. Some pop psychers believe that particular instruments tend to form particular personalities, even down to physical similarities. The Boston Symphony's Sherman Walt ascribes great significance to the fact that he is tall and skinny like his bassoon. Berlin Philharmonic Cellist Eberhart Finken is convinced that woodwind players speak with the same tones and inflections as their instruments...
Harvard actually had a height advantage, but there is a difference between a tall man and a big man. The Big Red's Walt Esdaile is a big man -- at 6 ft. 5 in, and 240 pounds, he outweighs the Crimson's heaviest man by 25 pounds. Esdaile controlled the offensive board in the second half, and contributed 21 points in addition...
...Whales, had a real challenger and Neal Steinhauer was a celebrity. It didn't seem all that sudden to Steinhauer. The son of a sawmill superintendent in Eugene, Ore., he has been putting the shot since he was a junior in high school, stood 6 ft. 2 in. tall and weighed 150 lbs. He is now 6 ft. 5 in., weighs 265 lbs., boasts a 52-in. chest and 18½-in. biceps. Wearing an old Oregon football jersey with No. 70 on the back, he works out with weights for three hours (he can lift...
...strut, emits an occasional laugh or yell, and slaps his thighs in selfesteem. Evidently, the Waika on epena experiences what the psychiatrists call macropsia: in his eyes everything is enormously magnified, including himself. He sees gigantic animals and birds. He feels not 10 ft. but 10,000 ft. tall, for his head is among the clouds. And after he has slept off his trip, he reports that he has talked with the häkula, the great spirits-although one Waika who had been to a mission school said that he had talked with the angels...