Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hagerty by telephone just before the briefing.) It was an item that President Eisenhower could (and did) use at his press conference. At 10:27 o'clock, only three minutes before conference time, Hagerty concluded: "That's all I have." President Eisenhower, already on his feet, replied: "Fine...
...word may come from a combination of Χειρ (hand) or Χειρουργóς (surgeon) with ποūς, ποδ-(foot), or from Χειροπòδης (having chapped feet...
...honey-sweet ribbons of sound. His inflections were a marvel of etched sensitivity, his pianissimos feathery light, his fortissimos bold and clear, with no hint of blurring. Kogan played the concerto with no apparent effort, smiled shyly to a thunderous ovation, which brought both audience and orchestra to their feet. Said he modestly: "The piece has plenty of technical difficulties to entertain the audience...
...catch its hackle-raising horrors, Twentieth Century searched around Europe last spring, out of a ten-mile tangle of celluloid salvaged 2,400 evocative feet, garnished it with an equally evocative script by Emmet John Hughes, author of Report from Spain (and now chief of TIME-LIFE'S foreign correspondents). There were some coruscant scenes: crying, cursing Madrileños "running faster, faster along the very edge of the abyss," truncheon-wielding cops beating them back; women and children being evacuated under heavy air bombardment, their life's possessions tied in burlap on their backs, or black coffins...
Hank Wente leaped 21 feet, eight inches to gain a third in the broad jump competition, held in the afternoon. Weightmen John DuMoulin and Jim Doty both did fifty-four feet in their event, but could not make the finals against the likes of Olympic champ Hal Connolly and several other fine performers