Word: feet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From a distance of several feet, we threw cups and cups of drano upon The Mound. It hissed back at us. It began to move. But it didn't go away...
When I landed in Omaha, I was greeted by a warmness foreign to Logan Airport. The stereotype of Midwestern friendliness seemed so appropriate when compared with Boston's chilly, look-at-your-feet-when-you-walk-attitude. Passers-by smiled and said, "Hello...
Similarly, at a meeting of the opposition group New Forum in Potsdam's Erloser Church, an overflow crowd of 5,000 booed, whistled and stamped their feet when party theoretician Otto Reinhold, until recently one of the East German guardians of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, proclaimed his conversion to reform by saying that the constitutionally enshrined leading role of the Socialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) was a thing of the past. From the audience a voice shouted, "Wendehals!" (turncoat), unleashing an uproar in the audience...
...fact that non-ordered choice makes every one happy doesn't make it a bad proposal--it makes it a better one. I like the status quo, but it doesn't seem politically viable--it seems that a minority on the committee seems to be dragging its feet on this issue...
Most of the wreckage was in an area about 200 feet by 50 feet. The biggest piece appeared to be about 50 feet long...