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Word: feets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adduces medical testimony to the effect that anybody with two-fifths of a gallon tucked in would be incapable of doing anything, a lad just out of Harvard Law is selected to save the situation by ingesting fifty-odd jiggers of Scotch in twelve hours, and appearing on his feet in court the next...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Drink to Me Only | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

...trim Yankee sloop, slashing relentlessly through 22-knot winds which sometimes raised waves as high as six feet, handed Sceptre her third straight setback...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Columbia Beats Sceptre by Mile To Take 3-0 Lead in Cup Races | 9/26/1958 | See Source »

...hours later he was ordered released anyway, pending a hearing. "You carried me in here, now carry me out," said McCrackin. "Aw, come on, man, be reasonable," said the Law. And Pacifist McCrackin got back on his feet and walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God & Taxes | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Styx, the sacred river!" sang the soprano, and flinging aside her dagger, collapsed on the stage. As the curtain fell, buxom Eileen Farrell hoisted herself to her feet, trudged back to her dressing room and sighed: "When I'm through this role, I'll be ready for the paddy wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Medea & the Paddy Wagon | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...before he had taken off his boots), and Sarah's reply to Somerset has gone down in history. "If I were young and handsome as I was," she wrote, "instead of old and faded as I am, and you could lay the empire of the world at my feet, you should never have the heart and hand that once belonged to John, Duke of Marlborough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That B.B.B.B. Old B. | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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