Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolution, work surreptitiously, bore into labor, into Roosevelt's New Deal. It was the beginning of the Pink Decade, when communism hid its face behind a hundred bland fronts, and thousands of U.S. citizens-the well-meaning, the intellectual, the starry-eyed and the muddleheaded-flocked around its feet...
Eight of them were dead almost as soon as the earth beneath their feet began to lurch. Falling bricks or masonry killed an eleven-year-old schoolboy in Tacoma, an 18-year-old student in Castle Rock, a 70-year-old man in Centralia and a 62-year-old steamfitter in Olympia. Three old men and a woman died of heart attacks. Dozens of others suffered broken bones, bruises or wounds from flying glass...
...Waters pleaded for a scientific approach toward rehabilitation instead of the traditional faith in force. "Force," she said, "has never lessened the number of feet crossing prison doors...
...Look, No Feet...
...representative of the National Red Cross, introduced a Miss Margaret Hutton. Miss Hutton, a member of the '49 Aquaparade, smiled broadly from the edge of the pool, adjusted her blue bathing suit in a few strategic spots, and slipped under the water. Her specialty is swimming without the feet. Holding her legs rigidly together, she made, respectively, like a porpoise, a shark, and a submarine. She got a good hand on the way to the dressing rooms. The fellow on my right explained that it was "good for the Aquacade...