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Word: feets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points I am to be disappointed. After a few taps I hear a single distant barker, soon joined by another and then another. Suddenly I see that the whole hallway is a swelling mess of howling, leaping, nadly salivating dogs. All of them seem to be at least three feet tall at the shoulder and as fat as toads. a bored and sleepy youg man, who appears to be the night watchman, materializes at the door, regards me abstractly for a moment and opens the door a crack. Immediately, two or three dogs squeeze by me and careen off into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...steps sit undisturbed but soon a small dark blob detaches itself from the effulgence above and comes waddling down the stairs towards me. The blob quickly congeals into a very interesting looking human being. He is a fairly small man, no more than a few inches over 5 feet tall, with an enormous belly which billows out in front of him like a racing spinnaker pulling him off-balance onto his toes. He moves toward me. He is quite solidly built, despite being over 80 years old, but he has skinny legs dangling below this massive torso, and his arms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

Biofeedback works! I transfer all that pain to my hands or even my feet. My hands become very warm and pulsating. No headache, no tension, and no feeling of general weakness afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...wrote, "my rusted rudderbar post broke while I was instructing a student during a low-altitude turn in an OX5 Standard." Another time, "my wooden propeller threw its sheet-metal tipping on a southbound mail flight from Chicago." Again, "my DH throttle mechanism broke and closed a hundred feet above ground over Illinois." The only lighting equipment his planes had in those days consisted of "a pocket flashlight (pilot furnished) and a compass light attached to a button on the end of the stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: They Almost Grounded Lindy | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...potent scoring unit. Everyone this side of the Mississippi knows that George can put the puck past any goaltender. Last Tuesday Hughes fittingly scored Harvard's first goal of the 1977-1978 campaign. Last night the mustachioed junior twice beat UVM's goaltender Tony Frost with wrist shots seven feet from the crease, for the first two tallies of the contest...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Tuesday Night at Watson | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

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