Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
...real problems facing the U.S., said Warren, went beyond party and beyond purely internal affairs. They could not be laid at the feet of "any one individual, any political party or any national administration." Most of them had been caused by "world forces beyond the control of the American people...
...Kiss for Bom Jesús. Inside, they moved forward past the gold and white side altars, past the two ornamented Aleijadinho pulpits. The only sound was the soft scuffing of sandaled feet. Reaching the altar, the pilgrims handed their candles to a priest, kissed the recumbent image of Bom Jesús, dropped their offerings in a box beside the altar. Some paused to honor the old tradition of "measuring" the figure with a piece of white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that...
...phonograph blaring in his ear. When visitors come, he can be rude ("I hate singers," he once bellowed at one he had just met), or he may entertain them for hours, playing records or showing them how he can sound three different rhythms all at once-with hands, feet and mouth...
...spring term, Coach Valpey gave each of his men a new pair of football shoes, and instructed them to wear the shoes during the summer vacation. As a result, when the team reported this fall, there were no sore feet problems for the medical staff...