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Word: feet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forwards Mauro Keller-Sarmiento and Alberto Villar created other opportunities, twisitng dribbles and passes across the goal from the right wing. They combined on Harvard's first excellent scoring opportunity as Villar landed a cross from the wing at Keller-Sarmiento's feet near the far post. Wesleyan goalie David Coombs then made a diving stop of the low, left-footed shot aimed on the left corner of the goal...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Soccer Escapes With Win Over Wesleyan, 1-0 | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

Moments later, the Harvard bench leapt to its feet, arms raised in apparent celebration of a Michael Smith goal. Smith banged a ball from inside the penalty area that appeared to go inside the right post. Miraculously, however, Coombs managed to tip it wide...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Soccer Escapes With Win Over Wesleyan, 1-0 | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...past year. Their passengers stay on the boats--some of which are no more than glorified canoes--for about two or three weeks before there is room in the warehouses (the British call them "go-downs") for them. Inside the boats are shelves no more than 4 feet long and 12 inches high. People are crammed into these shelves after they pay their $10,000 to get out of Vietnam--and they don't move until the boat docks at Hong Kong or Malaysia or elsewhere. They relieve themselves in their cubbyholes for the entire 600-mile trip...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Silver Cloud for ins seven-week stay. Between socializing and vocalizing, Pavarotti jetted to Los Angeles for one of his periodic jousts with Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. When he had free time, he took to the tennis court. A surprisingly graceful Gargantua, he is quick on his feet and gets about as much English on the tennis ball as he does into his conversation. "I gave him the toilet paper," he said of one opponent, meaning that he took him to the cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Golden Tenor | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...force, but he didn't panic for a moment. He had been through this same sensation many times on the centrifuge. As long as he just took it and didn't struggle, they wouldn't zap all those goddamned blue bolts into the soles of his feet. There were a lot worse things in this world than g-forces ... The main thing was to keep ahead of those blue bolts in the feet!... He started pushing the buttons and throwing the switches like the greatest electric Wurlitzer organist who ever lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skywriting with Gus and Deke | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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