Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bladder & Poniard. Next day burly, blue-suited Nye Bevan strode forward. Looking straight at Churchill, he lashed out: "I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth." Churchill heaved himself to his feet and objected to the word "lies." The bewigged Speaker overruled him. Thereafter Churchill sat back impassively, sometimes as if dozing, and let the waves of invective roll over him. The only sign of anger was the growing pallor of his face...
Pause that Refreshes. The fair's most satisfying feature, everyone agreed, was the "Gastronomic Village," a broad enclosure with seats for 4,000 people at long tables which were piled high with roast chickens, rolls, and flasks of Chianti. In an open-air kitchen, three cauldrons five feet tall steamed with a never-ending supply of spaghetti. Enthusiastic eaters hacked their way through mountains of food at 450 lire (75?) a meal. After lunch, many stretched out under the shady trees, took off their shoes, spread a copy of Unita over their eyes, and slept...
...hours Nehru rode triumphantly on its muddy stream. The city's carpenters had fashioned for him a 50-ft. barge caparisoned with gold brocade and Persian carpets, and propelled by oarsmen in white uniforms and crimson turbans. Nehru sat on a thronelike platform. At his feet played his two small grandsons, wearing Gandhi caps just like grandpa. Beside him sat quiet Karan Singh, Kashmir's powerless yuveraja (prince), and tall Sheikh Mohamed Abdullah, Kashmir's Prime Minister, real boss and Nehru's agent in the struggle with Pakistan over possession of Kashmir...
...Billie Burke, svelte and pretty at 63, revealed that, among other exercises, she stands on her head every morning. "It gets the blood to the brain," said she. "That's good for any thinking that has to be done ... I suppose it's also good for my feet and the rest...
Devaluation considerably improves Britain's changes of getting on her feet, Mason feels. "Exports will rise to the United States, and Britain will now be in the competition for the important Latin American market." Twin stumbling blocks seen by Mason are the possibilities that America will up her tariffs and that the increased cost of British imports may set off inflation in Britain. But still optimistic, Mason doubts that either of these two possible dangers will materialize...