Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After victory in the gulf and the cold war, the U.S. is standing tall. Yet you warn in your latest book, Millennium, that America is in decline and could end up as the granary of a Japan-dominated Pacific region. How come...
Like a seasoned skipper taking over a venerable tall ship, he's going about his business in seamanlike fashion. He's tightening sail here, testing rigging there, replacing this belaying that, preparing for a voyage that will test both crew and hull in the tempest...
...Plath stuck her head in an oven in London. Sexton told her psychiatrist, "Sylvia Plath's death disturbs me. Makes me want it too. She took something that was mine, that death was mine!" Eleven years later, in 1974, at the age of 45, Sexton poured herself a tall glass of vodka, went into her garage and closed the door, started up the old red Cougar, turned on the car radio and waited for the exhaust fumes to kill...
...years old. He stands five feet, 10 inches tall. He weighs 155 pounds. He's got Jack Nicholson's hairline, C. Everett Koop's beard. He attended the University of Miami, and he thinks he graduated, although he doesn't recall attending any classes at that fine institution...
...reform-minded first secretary of the Sverdlovsk district central committee; it was enough to bring him to the attention of another reformer from the hinterland, the newly installed Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev soon appointed Yeltsin first secretary of the Moscow city party committee. Thereupon the tall, bulky technocrat seemed to settle into a sort of permanent guerrilla war with his superiors in the Politburo and with his often corrupt underlings throughout the city's rambling bureaucracy...