Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inevitably filled with screaming elementary school students completely adverse to the idea of "seeing where history was made and a nation born" in a panoramic view of Boston isn't exactly appealing, but the John Hancock Building certainly is one of its kind. Not necessarily because it's that tall (nothing compared to New York City or Chicago), but because it has the most militant, bitter and angry security staff on earth. Of course, the Hancock Building's brochure trumpets praises for New England's tallest sky scraper: "come aboard the express elevator and feel the excitement build...
...Imagine a book that's as tall as a munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" and twice as wide. A book so heavy that it takes two librarians to move it. Just such a tome rests quietly in the bottom of Houghton Library, a warehouse for unusual and delicate writings that hides many a freakish volume behind its upright exterior. This ruskie book puts "War and Peace" to shame...
More than 42 years after fire destroyed the 70-foot tall tower of Memorial Hall, the University has decided to replace...
...Indiana Pacers actually play that way under Coach Bird. But the Lakers-Rockets game was not what Johnson had in mind. It was a sloppy, out-of-breath affair that at times resembled a Catholic Youth Organization game with really tall Catholics. But it put five big names on the floor and matched the future (Lakers) against the fading present (Rockets...
...with glowing red eyes comes to Little Tall Island just as a snowstorm hits. He knows the town's secrets and tells them; he weaves fatal mischief. "Give me what I want," he says, "and I'll go away." But if that gift were your own blood, would you offer it up to save your town? King's first original mini-series script is a marathon of communal anxiety with a spooky moral: we are ready to mortgage our children for our own restless comfort...