Word: feets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn, Vance's instructions are carried out by the bureaucracy. He has traveled frequently with Vance, including missions to the Middle East, Europe and China. But his most valuable service may be to serve as the Secretary's sounding board and trusted ear when Vance puts his feet up at the end of a difficult day, sips a Scotch and unwinds...
Although the limerick form appears in few prosody handbooks, Asimov followed strict, traditional rules. Limericks must have five lines. The first, second and fifth lines must all rhyme, while the third and fourth follow another rhyme (a,a,b,b,a). There are 13 feet, or stressed syllables, to the limerick-no more, no less. The typical foot is an anapest, that is, two unstressed syllables preceding an accented one (da-da-DAH), or sometimes an iamb...
Grab your old lady by the feet And just lay her out in the darkened street And by morning She's just another...
Harvard wasted no time racking up points in the first couple of field events, consistently their strongest areas. Tom Lenz and Ed Adjootian took first and second place for Harvard and scored personal highs by hurling the hammer more than 190 feet...
Indeed, standing on the bottom steps of the Capitol building, tired after four hours on your feet, it occurs to you that this demonstration, its organizers and participants, are among the most reasonable and practical of any you have ever encountered. Take the speakers, for example. No big names. This big, high-voiced man from California--he's one of the initial organizers. So's the lady in the red dress who's talking economics. You've never seen or heard of either of them before. And the Reverend? Absolutely essential: "Put your hands on the radio and your...