Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PLEASURE TO MEET UP AGAIN with the Wittings, the warm, turn-of-the- century farm family introduced in Sarah, Plain and Tall, the Hallmark Hall of Fame 1991 hit. In SKYLARK (Feb. 7, CBS), the mail-order marriage of Sarah (Glenn Close) and Jacob (Christopher Walken) has turned into a tender love match, and Sarah's stepchildren are thriving. The problem is nature: a serious drought is threatening life on the Kansas plains. In Sarah, Jacob was the one who had to put his past in perspective; this time, the drought forces his wife to take a similar journey. Unfortunately...
Back in Littlehampton, Anita's mother introduced her to another veteran of the trail -- a tall, thin 26-year-old Scotsman who had worked his way around the world (mining in Africa, canoeing in the Amazon, sheep farming in Australia) but really wanted to be a poet. To hear Anita tell it, she was concerned with more down-to-earth matters. "I wanted to have children and needed some sympathetic sperm," she says. "What I didn't anticipate was that I would fall in love with my sperm donor...
...year out of Harvard Law School in 1972, Sandy Berger was traveling with presidential candidate George McGovern as a speechwriter. When they landed in San Antonio for a rally, Berger caught a first glimpse of his future boss, bounding up the steps of the plane: a tall, striking young man, improbably clad in a Colonel Sanders white suit, who was serving as McGovern's Texas coordinator. Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger have been "real friends" ever since, says a senior Clinton aide. "You can see the affection when they're in the room together...
...Fermilab detector that began generating its own data last May. The sense of urgency has intensified arguments among the Collider Detector's 400 experimentalists over how to interpret the whispery tracks that appeared in October inside the device, a conglomeration of electronics and steel that stands 3 1/2 stories tall and weighs 4,500 tons. Through its hollow center, protons and antiprotons, accelerated to nearly the speed of light, smash into one another thousands of times in a second. The energy unleashed creates showers of short-lived particles that scintillate like tiny sparklers. From the evanescent flashes recorded...
Many Somalis think poorly of the U.N. for what they consider to be mishandling of earlier relief and peacekeeping efforts and kowtowing to the warlords. So far, the U.S. stands tall, but Somalis expect that the Americans will not only help feed the hungry but also rebuild the economy and infrastructure -- and that Washington has so far refused...