Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's story was that in 1944, when Chapin was at work on a secret atomic process at the University of Chicago, Hiskey arranged for him to meet Adams. Hiskey had described Adams as a Russian agent. The meeting took place but Chapin got cold feet. He told the committee under oath that he passed no secrets...
...poisoned a 50-year-old woman. He got the idea, and the poison recipe, he said, from a comic book. There were other alarming cases, too. A 13-year-old boy's parents came home from the movies to find his body hanging in the garage. At his feet was a crime comic depicting a hanging body. Two boys, 14 and 15, were caught committing a burglary. The crime comics they had with them had inspired the crime and shown them...
...Lynn Williams read the mayor's proclamation. Then Adler recited an 8,000-word catechism for Great Books readers, designed to help them defend the faith against attacks from unbelievers. The gist: "We don't claim we're going to cure the world, or cure flat feet. We do say we're going to do something for the mind...
...started out with hens' eggs-which, Dye explained, are roughly equivalent, for experimental purposes. Both are about the same shape (ovoid), and both consist of a rigid, fragile shell containing gelatinous material. Eggs will break when dropped four inches on a hard surface, skulls about four feet. But skulls and eggs crack about the same...
Modern Dinosaur? Are any dinosaurs still around? Ley tells of the Ishtar Gate in the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, which is decorated with portraits of the sirrush, a scaly, tall-walking reptile with clawed hind feet like a bird. The drawing is singularly detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...