Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More important than his ability to turn a compliment was the fact that Debré showed himself well-informed, quick on his feet and willing to listen to argument. To the infinite relief of his British listeners, Debré did not inflict on them the sweeping reflections on France's "grandeur" which they find so hard to take from De Gaulle. Above all he displayed, within the policy limits laid down by De Gaulle, considerable independence. "We kept looking for the string reaching back to Paris," said one British official. "Sometimes it was there. But sometimes it wasn...
...stood by the shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...
...right leg so he can be pushing on the shot a longer period of time. He also has a tendency to let the shot drop a little too low just before the throw." But he speaks of Long's ultimate capabilities with awe: "If I say 70 feet, people will think I'm crazy. But if I don't say it, this boy will probably...
...slaughtered lambs will be cooked. Facing the summit of the mountain, the priests will chant with mounting fervor as the Samaritans squat or kneel on the ground, wearing wide cloth belts and holding wooden staves-"and thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover...
Occasionally the curve would hang, and it was then that Moe Balboni and Mouse Kasarjian belted the home runs which accounted for the two Crimson scores. Balboni's round tripper came in the bottom of the seventh, and was a prodigious smash which carried over 350 feet down the left field line