Word: tallness
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...know much about you, see, so ... ahhh ... I got CNN to do a printout of your archives and I read through it. The stack was about a foot tall. So ... ahhh ... then I had them do a printout of my files and mine is about three feet tall." Pause. "Mine's bigger than yours! Pretty cute...
There's an old urban legend about the Chevy Nova flopping in Latin America because the car's name, in Spanish, means "won't go." The lesson of this tall tale, know thine target, has revived relevance to a new generation of marketers, who, after years of simply translating their mainstream English-language advertising into Spanish, are now creating product lines for U.S. Hispanics. Among these: Hershey's Cajeta Elegancita candy bar. The Mexican term for caramel flavor made with goat's milk, "cajeta" is also a word for female genitalia in Argentine slang. This idiomatic tangle highlights...
...Lussier. "Chase shoved me down and told me to stay behind him," says Lajeunesse, 15. The door handle jiggled. A gunshot exploded the glass panel beside it and then, through the opening, a hand reached in to open the door. In strolled a hulking figure, more than 6 ft. tall, with a 12-gauge shotgun held with both hands. He wore a black hooded trench coat, a black bandanna and black pants. His black military boots crunched the broken glass...
After standing tall against a number of scrums in front of the net, Boe could not snag defender Lyndsay Wall's slapshot, giving the Gophers its second lead of the night...
...This team was a bigger team, so naturally they’re going to have guys that can bang the ball a lot harder,” Freese said. “It was good for us to finally play against another team that’s tall and can hit the ball well...