Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point Crouch told of taking a trip with a Communist named Harvey. "Well," joked Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, "maybe it was Harry Bridges you were riding with. Stand up Harry-let him have a good look at you." Harry Bridges slouched amiably to his feet. "No," said Crouch, "he was heavier built...
...reverently at the bas-reliefs of Voortrekker heroes and other figures of South African history. At noon, a shaft of sunlight fell through an opening in the monument's dome upon the words "Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika" (We for You South Africa), engraved on an altar 130 feet below. The crowd watched in solemn silence while organs played; at that moment, throughout the land, bells pealed from every town and village belfry...
...electricity and had a complete gear panel. On the front of the 18-inch-long vehicle was an elevator such as is used to life and carry heavy crates or cotton bales. The truck, which ran on house current, could only travel in a circle of about four feet...
Champion Charles could have made it even stronger. At 35, for all the quarter-inch of fat that bulged over his purple trunks, Joe Louis still looked like the best heavyweight on two feet. Nursing a scuffed eyelid in his dressing room after the match, he was noncommittal when sport-writers asked him whether he was testing himself for a comeback, perhaps in a championship go against Charles next summer...
...Father Pius. He developed tuberculosis, but continued his priestly duties, though he sometimes fell into ecstatic trances while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced by a sharp weapon." Padre Pio had the stigmata-the marks of Christ...