Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Old Guard is back on its feet. Not since 1952 has it been so in evidence. Its battle flag is the curl-your-hair Eisenhower budget, first unfurled by Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. But the size of the budget actually is less at issue than the things it stands for. Says a top Eisenhower Republican: "The fight was bound to come, and if it had not been the budget, something else would have started it." The reason the fight was bound to come lies deep in the chemistry of the Republican Party...
...Culp's Hill, a key point of the Union defenses, Monty led Ike 70 feet up an observation tower (puffed Ike's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, who trailed them: "They're giving my patient a workout. He'll probably be criticized by the doctors"). Together the old soldiers studied rolling terrain to the northeast where Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart maneuvered (on the way down from Carlisle) ineffectually while the battle raged. "Lee was let down by Stuart," said Ike in disapproval. "What beat Stuart was his love of headlines." Montgomery was visibly unimpressed by Confederate...
Said "torpedo" had emerged from a long black Cadillac whose lights were out. "Torpedo" watched Costello turn some fifteen feet in front of him, and then fired one shot from his .38 at Costello's head. The bullet entered Costello's head beneath his ear, wriggled through skin for a short distance, and emerged without having touched the bone. Then the real trouble began...
John deKiewiet scored the other Crimson victory, winning the high jump at 5 feet, 19 3/8 inches...
...Doty took second in the shot, with a throw of 47 feet, 11 1/2 inches, edging Dick Hunt, who last year had beaten him handily. Although hampered by a sore shoulder, Carl Pescosolido lost by less than four feet to Gene Coker in the javelin...