Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept the [$3,750,000,000] loan. It made us live artificially, beyond our means, while you profited over there. Now we've got to begin fighting on our own feet." Nevertheless, among Europeans who have heard of the Marshall Plan at all,* a substantial majority, of course, endorse...
...giving in on every point until one is stripped of everything except peace-the peace of the grave. . . . We shall of course stand up against any future aggressor, from wherever he might come. We shall fight with everything we have. . . . Once more we shall prefer to die on our feet rather than live on our knees...
...Other One." M.P.s called Sidney "Nannie" because of his bushy goatee. "Small . . . rotund . . . tapering [off into] diminutive hands and feet," he was a cartoonist's joy. But to his adoring Beatrice, "the Other One" was her lord & master, her "little boy," and "man of destiny" rolled into one. Sidney was never ill, never daydreamed, never had a nightmare, never suffered from moral qualms or neurotic doubts. He could read and write sociological statistics day in & day out, and still have strength to work on numerous committees, coolly and tirelessly conducting "endless intrigues to persuade those in authority...
...perhaps this avid desire for "a universal church" which caused the Webbs to be swept off their feet by the devout fervor of the founders of the Soviet Union. But in 1911, when this diary ends, the Webbs did not yet suspect the revolutionary upheavals that were to come. From her retreat in the "delightful countryside," Beatrice could look back over the furious past, and nostalgically recapture old memories of committees, boards, councils, intrigues and, above all, "the river Thames sweeping through the splendor and squalor of the birthplace of the 19th Century capitalist dictatorship...
Four Freshmen came through in the high jump, the only field event scheduled, as Charley Keefe and Hal Furth tied for first with jumps of 5 feet, 2 inches. Bob Duncan and Jim Gregg tied for third to sweep the event for the Crimson...