Word: angular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Coast the home-grown male often seems to run to an angular, muscular 6 ft. 3 in. 175-pounder who likes to lose himself in the anonymity of a number in an eight-oared shell. Each February hordes of them report to Washington Coach Al Ulbrickson and California's Ky Ebright; each June one or the other of the Western crews manages to give the East a rowing lesson. Only twice in the past 18 years has the West failed to win the big Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Poughkeepsie...
Most of the others in the White House party also lay abed. It was not until the morning of the third day that angular Secretary Charles Ross was able to get up to the bridge and into radio communication with newsmen on an accompanying destroyer. He made his report: the only activity aboard the Williamsburg occurred in a horrible nightmare he had had, in which oranges were rolling back & forth, back & forth on the deck of his cabin. Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan had been the sickest man, but there had been a general loss of faith in the seasickness pills...
During the singing of the last hymn, a tall, blond man with angular features and deep-set eyes made himself a little conspicuous by fooling with some wires which seemed to run from him down to the edge of the stage. This man turned out to be Billy Graham who had been connecting his lapel microphone to the amplifying system...