Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should I stretch out or sit up?" Vag asked himself. "I might as well compromise." He sat down on a soft red chair at the far end of the room, put his feet up on a coffee table, and began to read. "If I study without underlining this time," he thought, "if should improve my memory...
...Boeing Test Pilot Russel H. Baum, 32, was trying to demonstrate to veteran Braniff Pilot Jack Berke, 49, was its eccentric reaction to an excessive sidewise skid, or yaw. Skid her too far one way or the other, he explained, and she will flip over.*At 12,000 feet over Seattle's suburbs, Pilot Berke, flying slowly with flaps down 40 degrees, tried to get the feel of impending trouble by kicking right rudder and putting the jetliner into a flat right skid...
...London alone, Jewish property was confiscated, and many of them were executed. Little St. Hugh, as he was soon called,*received a pillared shrine in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1791 the tomb was opened by the president of the Royal Society. Inside was "the complete skeleton of a boy, three feet, three inches long." For years, on a plaque above the tomb, visitors to Lincoln Cathedral could read a full account of the story, softened only by a small postscript casting doubt on its authenticity. Last week the plaque disappeared. To replace it, a new version was being lettered: "Trumped...
This compromise, which Church officials had rejected early in the proceedings, permitted construction to a height of 46 feet...
...point where Washington feels most strongly that it is time for a change is in the field of foreign aid. With the original postwar objective of setting Europe back on its feet handsomely achieved, the bulk of U.S. aid already goes to underdeveloped nations; in the future even more of it will have to do so. And, add U.S. officials grimly, it had better not find its way back to European pockets quite so often as has been the case in the past. (An example that still gravels Washington: in recent years the West German government has underwritten some...