Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actually the mediation meeting had lasted only 2½ hours. Phil Murray, out for big game, refused to budge from his insistence on discussing pension demands (although, under the contract, he was only entitled to open wage and insurance negotiations this year). Profit-fat steelmen* as stubbornly dragged their feet on wages as long as the union wanted to talk pensions, too. At that deadlocked point, Murray looked hopefully to the White House...
Taft was quickly on his feet. He asked if Dulles knew that the President was about to submit an arms program as "an implementation of the Atlantic pact." Dulles knew no such thing: "I do understand that there is a program . . . which was worked out entirely independently of any treaty ... I see in the treaty no legal or moral obligation to vote any arms program which is not defensible on its own merits...
Prince Philip gave some future tars a demonstration of royal prowess. At the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey, Wales, Philip tossed a javelin 109 feet, four feet better than the school "silver star" (i.e., a letter) proficiency standards...
American with big feet and a hole in his sock squatting on the floor and putting boyish questions to the tiny, tired Mahatma...
...Dark Side. In Columbia, Tenn., Bridge Worker Walter Atkinson fell 41 feet into 18 inches of water, arose only slightly bruised but with a complaint: "My cigarettes...