Word: feets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-mile track is a series of tight, tough curves-carrousels, S's, hairpins and hard rights and lefts-30 in all, with only 80 meters of straightaway in the whole labyrinth. Though the car can seldom reach 40 m.p.h., to the driver, with eyes only three feet above the asphalt, the sensation, if not the speed, is supersonic. He is competing with the clock. As he crosses the finish line, his time is shown in lighted, 2-ft.-high digital figures. First time around it may be a humiliating 98.46 sec. After a few more heart-in-mouth...
...active leprosy. One patient had a febrile illness; another was having kidney trouble; a third was staying in the hospital because he was too emotionally disturbed to live alone outside. Outpatients dropped in during the morning for Koch to treat ulcers-most of them located on their hands and feet-that had originally been caused by leprosy and then complicated by other infections. Some came to have the doctor renew their prescriptions for medicine-not, in most cases, because their leprosy was active, but to keep their arrested disease suppressed...
...serve architecture if the will (and the cash) is forthcoming. Architect Wallace K. Harrison, looking for a way to animate the plaza in designing the huge $1 billion-plus complex, went back to the idea of reflecting pools. And what reflecting pools they are! The largest is six hundred feet long and it sits in a park atop garages and a shopping mall. In winter part of it is frozen for skaters. Says Harrison: "It changes the feeling of the whole city of Albany...
Morrison's protagonist is also called Macon Dead-grandson of the freed slave. He is nicknamed Milkman because his mother suckled him until he was almost tall enough for his feet to touch the floor. Yet he remains starved as a child for the heritage his silent family cannot or will not provide. His one wish is to fly. "To have to live without that single gift saddened him and left his imagination so bereft that he appeared dull." At twelve, he meets an outcast aunt, Pilate Dead, who fills the role of tribal storyteller. She tells...
...Weld stairs. "Soccer!" one shouts, "What kind of wussy sport is that? Look no hands! Nah, I'm just shittin' ya." His companions laugh. Someone spills a half-empty can of warm beer all over the steps. It runs down to the pavement and puddles at the feet of a pretty blonde, surrounded by six or seven men. She is listening to them, but the look in her eyes says she really isn't there...