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Word: feet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk was the only part of the office that was still in the same position. Walrus had his feet propped up on it. There was one partition remaining behind him. On it, pages were scotch-taped from movement newspapers that looked like posters. One was red with white letters: "Some people talk about the weather. Not us." It had the silhouettes of Marx, Engels, and Lenin...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Resistance: An Obtiuary | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...have not yet asked for U.S. troops to help; nor would the Thais object to a reduction in the number of U.S. servicemen stationed on their soil. There are now 50,000, barely fewer than are in South Korea. "Thailand is a country that stands on its own two feet," said Nixon as he urged the Thais to make new domestic reforms. Foreign Minister Thanat Kho-man took the cue from his guest. "It is an absolute necessity for Thailand to have many different measures to oppose the danger of aggression by Asian Communist countries," he said. "The most practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON'S SOBERING MESSAGE TO ASIA | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...like to say this: there's so much room left. Get in an airplane and go up 30,000 feet and see America. Fly across it. There are clusters of people on the coasts, a few clusters in the heartland. But there are thousands and thousands of square miles in which you see nothing. The challenges are still great. We haven't even started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural Resources: The Education of Wally Hickel | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...Vanderbilt could be applied to Columbia with good effect. There is one exception: if the 7,062-man Columbia faculty and staff were to produce written job appraisals as detailed as those submitted to him at Vanderbilt, the assembled report might well be 109,027 pages long and 33 feet high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Columbia's Choice | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...first scene establishes the peaceful, orderly life of Jannings in his apartment. The room where he EATS breakfast is deep and flooded with light. When he sits down to eat, however, the camera a few feet above his head seems to lock him into his chair, between the curved table-top before him and the gleaming surface of a globe behind. While cracking an egg he whistles to his canary; hearing no answer, he rises and goes to the cage. His head fills half the frame; the cage, the other half. His landlady comes in, takes the dead bird...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, AT THE ORSON WELLES A 3 THROUGH 5 | Title: The Blue Angel | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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