Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your confidence and your love to the President, and for that I take heart . . . Our Soviet government has the support of the people. Before I left, the same thing was said to me: 'Khrushchev, go to America, strive for peace, but stand firmly on your own two feet...
...even the suggestive threat had a mellow note. In some strange way-some way that had nothing to do with issues of substance or policy-Nikita Khrushchev and the U.S. had come to a grudging mutual acknowledgment that each party was standing firmly on his own two feet, and not likely to be easily shaken in basic underpinnings...
...there when they took [King] into the stables (where they previously beat two Turks) and I could hear him screaming . . . When he came out his feet were so swollen that he couldn't get [them] in his shoes and could just about walk. His handkerchief was bloody and he was crying . . . McCuistion was beaten in the morning. I saw him about six . . . They then separated us and I didn't see him any more until 1100 hours. His shirt was torn, no glasses on, blood and scratches on his face and red bruises all over his body...
...million sq. ft. of new floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan since the war. In a three-day cleanup campaign, 1,000,000 Peking residents claim to have collected refuse, dirt and mud sufficient to build a wall "three feet wide and 21 feet high, running 1,200 miles from Peking to Canton." And in an outburst of planned gaiety, the commissars had promised a brief bounty of meat, clothing, and children's toys, including space rockets that trail sparks...
Other Harvard performers excelled at Santry's international gathering, too. Joel Landau won the 220 June 16 with a 21.8 clocking around a turn. That evening Tom Blodgett cleared 13 feet to take the pole vault, John de Kiewiet went over 6ft., 1 in. for a win in the high jump, and Pat Lilies finished first in the broad jump with a leap of 21 ft., 10 1/2 in. Lilies also was second in the pole