Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State for the Colonies, stood up in the House to announce: "The Attorney General of Kenya has decided that on the evidence available no charge can be framed against identified individuals in respect of identified illegal force used in the incident." Angrily, Labor M.P. Barbara Castle jumped to her feet to demand, "Has there been any identity parade of warders? If not, why not?" The British press, with honorable exceptions, has shown little fire about the affair, moving Paul Johnson to write heatedly in the left-wing New Statesman comparing Hola to concentration camps and British people's apathy...
...dispute was for control of the powerful, 450,000-member Sugar Workers Federation. To gain a voice in it, the Communists used an old ploy: they headed their slate of candidates with Conrado Becquer, 39, a respected, longtime labor leader. Becquer shot to his feet, denounced the Red list, swept to victory as the Castro candidate for secretary-general by a vote...
...Dobbins, a frequent baiter of labor bosses though an American Newspaper Guild member himself, quite plainly saw his own responsibility, sat down at his drawing board and, with his characteristic heavy-lined style ("I can't draw tiny lines-I'm six feet four"), once again exposed Jimmy in his bearskin (see cut). Said Dobbins. "I'm pleased that I scored-he seemed such a hard guy to penetrate with ridicule...
High overhead, Communist jets traced white contrails in a sky of startling blue. A bare 150 feet away, residents of Communist East Berlin gawked from windows. Just across the border in West Berlin, Publisher Axel C. Springer, 47, last week confidently laid the cornerstone of a $4,700,000, 35-story headquarters for his press empire, the most powerful on the Continent. Springer's three wishes as he gave the cornerstone its traditional three raps: "Unity and justice and freedom...
...black-and-red-lacquered railings and its bright green flooring, four dancers in silk brocade robes turned their green-masked faces to the audience. The translucent music wavered hypnotically, swelling and fading in little drum-punctuated strands of sound. The dancers flexed their knees slowly, extended their slippered feet to describe airy figures on the dance cloth...