Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cold Feet." Robert Stripling, the committee's chief investigator, had developed two cases. The first centered around one Arthur Alexandrovich Adams, who shuttled between the U.S. and Moscow before the war, and had been connected with Russian commercial missions in the U.S. Adams, long suspected of espionage for Russia, slipped out from under FBI surveillance in 1945, is now believed to be in the U.S.S.R. The committee linked Adams with two U.S. scientists who had worked on secret atomic projects. One was Clarence Francis Hiskey, 36, now a chemistry professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The other was slender John...
...There is good reason to believe," Schlesinger said, "that we can put France on her feet with a government of the present type...
With a roar, 200 officials and spectators leaped to their feet. Two court officers jumped on Lewis and pummeled him until he submitted. The other defendants quietly surrendered to the court officers, who led them to the county jail...
Stretch Mazzone, who earned his nickname at Everett High for the obvious reason, stands six-four in his bare feet, and tips the scales at an even...
...qualify for the award, a "novice" must throw the 35-pound weight 50 feet, the hammer 160 feet, or the discus 140 feet. An "experienced" athlete is required to better 53 feet, 6 inches in weight. 168 feet in the hammer, or 149 feet in the discus. Cameron and Forsyth are being awarded novice prizes for their efforts in the discus and 35-pound weight respectively...