Word: talled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minnesota farmers resist the march of the tall towers...
Though farmers would be served by the new power cable, they want no part of it. As the line's intimidating 150-ft.-tall towers march through relatively small family farms, a landowner can find his hard-won acres chopped up. The high wires also discourage pilots from doing increasingly important aerial spraying and seeding. Besides, Minnesota farmers are fully aware of the experience of people living near similar high-voltage lines elsewhere. The lines literally snap, crackle and pop, and they set up electromagnetic fields that can produce jolting, if nonlethal, shocks in anyone touching ungrounded machinery...
...great big lies." The Little People of America, a national outfit boasting 2,000 members who are 4 ft. 11 in. or under, has denounced the record. Irate callers in several cities have persuaded radio stations to stop playing it. At first, Newman, who is 12 in. too tall to qualify for the Little People, laughed off the criticism. Now he's not talking at all, leaving his agent to insist that the lyrics are intended merely to ridicule prejudice of all kinds. If so, Newman seems to have fallen short of the mark...
...paintings included an 8-foot tall portrait of John Quincy Adams, a portrait of Samuel Dexter and a landscape entitled "Upland Country...
...with the accent on the second syllable, Dorsett. In the old days, nicknaming a Dal las player consisted of calling Defensive Tackle Robert Lilly "Bob." Now the Cowboys boast "Manster" Linebacker Randy White (for each of the things he is half of) and the bookend defensive ends, Ed "Too Tall" Jones and Harvey "Too Mean" Martin. Then there is Tom "Hollywood" Henderson, who, during the offseason, dated one of the Pointer Sisters...