Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Manhattan at their dancing feet, 90 remarkable Russians launched a seven-week campaign this week to sweep through eleven other U.S. and Canadian cities across the continent. The invaders: Moscow's phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company (TIME, April 14). Every night for three weeks the standees jostled four deep behind the Metropolitan Opera's ropes, and even the ushers stared popeyed at the stage. Orchestra seats went on the black market for $80 a pair, but few could be had. Night after night, audiences (total: 79,000, who paid $365,000) rose in cheering ovations. Impresario Sol Hurok...
...virginity with the local Fascist bullyboys in exchange for her deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude as their characters-grasping, thieving, sullen, vicious, cynical...
...lone varsity score came at 14:15 of the third period, after Dartmouth had tallied eleven times. Jerry Cotter shot from thirty-five feet and Nick Lamont intercepted the thrust in front of the cage...
...only by about 8 feet ahead of Princeton. In the third varsity, freshman, and second freshman races, the Crimson won by at least a length each time...
...third Crimson sweep came in the high jump, where John deKiewiet, Bob Downs, and Cal Kean finished in a three-way tie for first at 6 feet, 2 inches. In the hammer, John DuMoulin and Jim Doty both far exceeded their best throws of the season to take first and second. DuMoulin threw 178 feet, 2 inches, and Doty 171 feet, 51/2 inches...