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Word: feets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They caught us while we were in exam period," said Stiles, winner of the pole vault with a leap of 16 feet. "But the team's impression of what's going to happen next week is different now," he added...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Sheehan and Stiles Break Barriers In Two-Mile and Pole Vault Events | 1/20/1978 | See Source »

...arguments for and against the petition for the second time since a similar hearing occured last November. The board then recommended to the city council that the property be down-zoned from a C-2 zoning to a C-1 zoning, reducing the building height restriction from 75-35 feet...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Round Two For Radcliffe Gym Protest | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...change in political status would help the islanders stand on their own feet, and in 1972 Washington began talks with the Micronesians toward that goal. In 1976 both sides initialed a draft compact calling for a "free association" in which the islands would gain much independence and the U.S. would oversee their defense and foreign relations. Then everything fell apart because individual island groups, proud of their separate identities, wanted to strike individual deals with the U.S. The 26,000 residents of the Marshalls voted in a referendum to negotiate separately from the territory as a whole for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wind Shifts in the Pacific | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...typical punk assemblage of street-wise rowdies, although one fellow showed up with a safety pin punched through his cheek. The kids pelted the performers with a friendly barrage of crumpled paper cups and, as the Pistols' big beat went on, twisted and swayed on their feet. They had no choice: the place had been designed without seats to encourage informality and mingling. Imagine, no furniture to break up! Punk aficionados could only hope that things would get worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...their weaknesses: dreamy, high-strung people for whom life proved to be too much. Her father had a nervous breakdown in 1905, and her mother died in 1912. Faced with all this, Elizabeth developed a strategy of "not noticing" and emerged into gawky adolescence with big hands, big feet, a stammer and pronounced nearsightedness. She married Alan Cameron, a World War I veteran and civil servant, and settled into a union that was long on affection and short on passion. "I and my friends," she wrote in 1935, "all intended to marry early, partly because this appeared an achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passions in a Darkened Mirror | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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