Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had caused the awful trouble aboard Flight 624 might never be known. There was no survivor; parts of bodies were found 450 feet from the crash.* The Civil Aeronautics Board's investigators had almost nothing to go on. Some witnesses at the scene said at first that the plane had been trailing smoke; then they were not so sure. All that was left of the plane were a few large hunks of engines, a few propeller blades, some jagged chunks of fuselage...
...Operation Bird Dog" represented one more Western decision to get Western Germany on its feet for the good of Europe...
...rhythmic patter of a burro's feet, mariachis (street singers), gathered around café tables, tell the story...
Said jobless Tom Buchanan: "To Mrs. Roosevelt and to all whose advice has been, 'stand up and be counted,' I now reply that I am on my feet. It is time for them to stand up and be counted, too." When Washington Guildsmen stood up last week, the preliminary count was 251 to 163 in favor of doing nothing for Communist Buchanan...
...Florence B., a scallop boat, was scalloping along off the New Jersey coast last week, in 105 feet of water, 50 miles southeast of Ambrose Lightship. Among the scallops the rake dredged up a curious object: a gigantic tooth that would have taken a Paul Bunyan dentist with forceps the size of crossed crowbars to extract. The tooth was 6.5 inches long and Weighed 3.7 pounds. The roots were rust-colored and scaly, but the hard crown was jet black, as if the owner had chewed betel nuts...