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The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.

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How did you step into Cootie’s gangling, somewhat awkward skin?

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An awkward, gangling kid, he failed to make the team at Hoover Junior High School.

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At first the roles that came to him were mostly comic, owing perhaps to his gangling figure and pilgrim looks — long face, sharp nose, superb eyebrows.

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Now kids are everywhere – lolling on the grass, gangling on stoops, sulking along on family walks, and … do they all live here?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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