Thorpe said big feet and hands run in his family.

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He started to sing again, but too fast, and Mother pounded the keys and tramped on the pedals, as though she were at the wheel of some sort of vehicle, a big wooden bus that she was driving down a steep hill with her feet and hands.

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Yer hands reached the bottom and ye pressed and pressed to push yer feet back up and if a big boy caught yer feet and pulled ye out or else that was you and ye went right the way in the water.

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At six feet four, with big facial features, close-cropped charcoal-gray hair, and enormous hands, Donziger is a formidable physical presence.

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