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...blended boy's-own adventure with psychological insight and a sense of history in such tales as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Body Snatchers - came to die. "Our place is in a deep cleft of Vaea Mountain, some 600 feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars," he wrote to his friend Sidney Colvin at the British Museum...
...their side, others with their legs apart or face down, a fate sometimes associated in ancient burials with those guilty of awful crimes. One female was found laid carefully on her back, with all her vertebrae in place but her ribs and one foot missing; another had its feet resting on a coral shelf. These skeletons too were headless; some had had their clavicles removed as well. Teeth sprinkled around the top of the spines suggest that the skulls were dug up at least a year after the dead were buried, by which time the teeth would have come loose...
...Alamos on Thanksgiving Day of 1944. When I arrived, I was immediately invited to a cocktail party at Dr. [Robert] Oppenheimer's quarters. I'd gone from sea level to 7500 feet and it didn't take very long before a couple of martinis did their business. The cocktail party adjourned into a square dance. My wife was pretty good at it, so she got along pretty well. I didn't have the vaguest idea what I was doing. That was my introduction to Los Alamos...
...mile from where the bomb dropped, Michiko Yamaoka, then a 15-year-old student, saw the same flash. Today she describes it as like a burst of light from an unearthly photo shoot, big enough to cover the sky, "blue-yellow and very beautiful." Yamaoka was blown off her feet. When she came to, she had burns all over her body, and, she says, she could "hear people calling out for help and the crackle of fire coming from burning houses ... people moaning from pain, with eyes popped out and intestines coming out of their stomachs." As the Enola...
This characterization begins with his rather average height. Don’t believe the bios on the internet, the man is 5’11”—maybe six feet on a good day with inch-thick heels. He also runs the most professional, well-organized office I’ve ever seen. And, surprisingly, he’s always at the capitol. Apparently he chose to forgo his usual four daily hours of acting lessons when he was elected...