Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Citizen Dodonov...was suddenly dismissed from a factory for 'political reasons'...systematically beaten...kept on his feet without moving for 20 days...Soviet Citizeness Demidenko...received no food for six days...was beaten on the feet with clubs in an attempt to wring an admission from her that she had gathered some sort of information for the U.S.S.R...
Many Siamese call Phibun two-faced, suspect he is more interested in establishing an army dictatorship than in making democracy work. "Government leaders just like to talk about democracy," a Bangkok university student complained last week. "They spell it out with their hands, and rub it out with their feet." Most Siamese wish fondly that cowlicked, 21-year-old little King Phumiphon (pronounced Poomeepone) would return from his voluntary exile in Switzerland, where he spends his time writing songs. His 'Tis Sundown and Rainfall are enthusiastically sung by Siamese students everywhere and played frequently in Bangkok nightclubs. Sample...
When he found that the slaughter of the chickens left feet, heads and entrails, Schnering brought in mink which thrive on chicken waste; he now has 400 breeding mink on his farm. One day Schnering decided to put the gushing springs on his farm to work. He built a ¼-mile-long trout hatchery, last year sold 60,000 trout to hotels and restaurants for an average...
...however, Lincoln had become the leader of the Sangamon County delegation of nine Whigs-"the Long Nine" whose aggregate height was exactly 54 feet. Everybody knew that Vandalia's days were numbered as the state capital; it was too far south. In 1837 a new capital would be chosen, and the Long Nine were out to put across Springfield, in Sangamon County, as the new site. An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll. Lincoln became "an amiable, entertaining apostle of adequate transportation...
...Lark Said: "Carry On!" When ecstatic August walked by her side, her small feet appeared so much part of him that he "seemed to be walking on four legs." Pouring out his passion, he wrote her: "Forgive me!!!!!! Sunday morning. I will, I will be mad. Now I've talked about it all. Who to? To the spring, to the oaks, to the willows, to the anemones, and the bells sang and the lark said: 'Carry on!' ... I love you, I love you, I love...