Word: tallness
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Harvard hockey captain Pete Hafner is as mild-mannered as he is tall, and so the sight of the 6’5 defenseman fuming after last Friday’s 5-1 ECAC quarterfinal loss to St. Lawrence was very nearly unbelievable...
...recently working at a Lowe's in Texas and dancing with a Native American theater troupe. His leading lady is also a movie first-timer - from Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico. The oldest and youngest actors on the set know no other language but Maya and never saw a tall building before their first make-up call...
...including Lauren Bacall, Carmen Miranda and Audrey Hepburn, many of whom longed for a stylish lift. (Marilyn Monroe special-ordered her platforms at over 4 in.) Today the platform and the wedge are best sellers for labels as diverse as Prada and Escada. And the Ferragamo brand, still walking tall, continues to reintroduce the styles 70 years after their debut...
...land can claim one of the world's largest indoor ski slopes, featuring fresh powder year round? While flying in on the stylish, state-owned Emirates Airlines, you might notice the artificial islands in the shape of a palm tree or the 56-story Burj al-Arab hotel, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, built like a billowing sail. Westerners are welcome, along with their vices. Europeans in bikinis mingle on the beach with Muslim women in abayas; alcohol flows freely at Dubai's nightclubs and resorts. With events like the Dubai World Cup, a horse race with a record...
...this case, Owsley and his team were able to nail down or make strong guesses about Kennewick Man's physical attributes. He stood about 5 ft. 9 in. tall and was fairly muscular. He was clearly right-handed: the bones of the right arm are markedly larger than those of the left. In fact, says Owsley, "the bones are so robust that they're bent," the result, he speculates, of muscles built up during a lifetime of hunting and spear fishing...