Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best rookeries during the breeding season -- something that other hunters would not do. Watson had made two or three modest fortunes, lost them, collected women and offspring along the way, and killed any number of people, though no one knew how many murders were real and how many tall stories. The book's opening scene describes Watson's execution by a band of his Chatham River neighbors who ambushed him from the banks as he put-putted up to his dock in one of the first motorboats folks had ever seen. Thirty-one bullets were used to lay this legend...
...Rihachi who decreed that when an official Japanese ball was dropped from a height of 16 1/2 ft., it had to bounce 4 1/2 ft. That just happened to be the eye level of the diminutive company founder. Today his grandson, who is 5 ft. 5 in. tall, has set his sights considerably higher...
...while, Don Dixon stood tall in Texas. He was big rich, as Texans like to say. A successful real-estate developer, in 1982 he bought a tiny savings and loan in his hometown of Vernon and built it into a giant, at least on paper. By luring deposits from across the U.S. with high interest rates, Vernon S&L grew a spectacular 1,600% in just four years, making it one of the 20 largest thrifts in the state. But the S&L was lending money faster than it was coming in, often to projects on shaky financial footing. Meanwhile...
...when all else fails, there is always her abiding ability to disarm friend and foe alike. On the evening of Agnos' inauguration as current mayor, Barbagelata and his wife Angela were having dinner with a group of friends at Trader Vic's, off Taylor Street, when they saw the tall figures of Feinstein and her husband saunter into the restaurant. Feinstein immediately came over, threw out her arms and said, grinning, "C'mon, John, you ole curmudgeon, give me a kiss!" Barbagelata complied. "What could I do?" he says ruefully. "She's a charmer...
...Alas, poker is a pure gambling game only in the very short run. Beyond the quirk of a single hand, skill takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music of his Walkman. He piles up a fortress of chips, then watches it disintegrate. The last of it backs two nines. He pulls a third nine, but his opponent gets a third...