Word: waists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expecting it, we saw a giant, who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping, and singing, and whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head . . . He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist." After the dawn of the Enlightenment and the scientific method, eyewitness accounts of oddities arrived buttressed by facts. In Africa, a 19th century, English explorer met the sister-in-law of a local chief and noted, "She was another of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting...
...another bumper crop is on the way. In Illinois, the corn is already seven feet high in spots and not close to topping out. Some corn is tasseling weeks ahead of schedule, and an early harvest is in prospect. Soybeans have also benefited from perfect weather; many plants are waist high and flowering ahead of time. Good, dry planting weather came early this year across Iowa and Nebraska, and even scattered flooding has not hurt the promise of a bountiful harvest. Elsewhere in the Midwest, it is much the same, a year so good that Dennis Vercler, news director...
...bottles. Later came other ideas. R.P. Scherer, a capsule manufacturer, developed a "soniseal" machine that uses sonic waves to weld the two pieces of a capsule together. Eli Lilly last year made available to U.S. manufacturers a similar technique. A band of gelatin is placed around the waist of the capsule, where the two pieces overlap. That makes it tougher to open the casing without leaving a mark. But companies were slow to adopt the new technology, apparently because they thought that sealing the pill bottles was sufficient protection...
...trying to be aggressive like I was on the first two pitches," Stewart said. "I wanted to throw another fastball inside like the first two, but I got it out over the plate, waist high...
President Reagan once called him the "little dictator who went to Moscow," but when Daniel Ortega strolls around Managua with his two small sons in tow, he looks anything but the strongman. No tassles and epaulets for him, no holster around the waist, no stretch Mercedes. Hatless, in a black T shirt and khakis, Ortega could be any Latin American father except for the security contingent tailing him. Whether by design or by nature, he operates in public like a man of the people. When he travels by car, he is usually behind the wheel, and the car is usually...