Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party. But your notions about Russia and Stalin are highly abnormal. All right-thinking people now agree that Russia is a mighty friend of democracy. Stalin has become a conservative. In a few hours the whole civilized world will hail the historic decisions just reached beneath your feet as proof that the Soviet Union is prepared to collaborate with her allies in making the world safe for democracy and capitalism. The revolution is over...
...Feet of Clay. In Albuquerque, police arrested the Better Business Bureau's manager Don Dreessen, charged him with extortion...
...White House, along with the information that its electronic components were offshoots of top-secret experimentation during World War II. It was christened the "walkie-no-back-talkie." With his transmitter, Harry Truman, under the duly registered call name "Independence," could broadcast to anyone within a range of 200 feet. His message could be received by any standard receiver tuned to 6575 kilocycles...
...difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other aircraft had wobbled or plunged out of control (some had disintegrated). The XS-1, launched from the belly of a B29, had also reached altitudes never before penetrated by airplanes-up to 70,000 feet (previous record: 56,046 feet, set in 1938 by Colonel Mario Pezzi, an Italian...
There were other questions, beyond oatmeal, to bother the Scottish M.P.s last week. "Is the President of the Board of Trade aware," asked Hector Hughes, "that in the city of Aberdeen there is a shortage of outsize nether garments, for men and boys over six feet in height...