Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle-aged audience listened to him attentively, then engaged him in spirited debate. Cord Meyer is quick on his feet, sure of his position, talks fast, and is convinced that there is no time to lose...
...mercury stood at two below zero one morning last week at Pine Camp, the U.S. Army's 107,000-acre training area in northern New York. Three feet of snow blanketed the terrain, dotted with scrub pines. At H-hour, 11:30 a.m., 15 potbellied Fairchild Packets roared overhead, a scant 800 feet over the snow...
...exercise had its comic aspects. One load of supplies was dropped wide of its mark. When the local citizenry started to make off with it, the 505th's commander, Lieut. Colonel Robert Wienecke, hopped into a helicopter and went after them. He hovered ten feet in the air over one man who was dragging a bundle to his car, rose in his seat and trumpeted: "Go put that back." The "liberator" obeyed...
...While his wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
...million feet of yellow, red, black, and green wires winds in and out of the framework in the rear...