Word: feets
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...with Earth at more than 38,000 m.p.h. would explode with the energy of 300,000 megatons--nearly 20 million times the force of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. If it hit in the ocean, he predicted, it would cause a tsunami (commonly called a tidal wave) hundreds of feet high, flooding the coastlines of surrounding continents. "Where cities stood," he said, "there would be only mudflats." A land hit, he calculated, would blast out a crater at least 30 miles across and throw up a blanket of dust and vapor that would blot out the sun "for weeks...
Starr may have been able to force Monica Lewinsky's mother to testify about her daughter's activities [NATION, Feb. 23], but he could chain me to a wall in the deepest dungeon with rats nibbling at my feet and I would never divulge what my daughter told me in confidence. In Nazi Germany children were encouraged to squeal on their parents. Is this what we have sunk to? HARRIETT SCHUTKIN Fox Point...
Struggling for a book on the top shelf in the Pusey stacks, we found that we could barely reach the third shelf down. A view of the titles of the books on the top shelf was a mere pipe dream. Even if we were six feet tall, reaching the shelf would have been a stretch. And there wasn't a single one of those little rolly-stairs things in sight. Dragging a chair from a nearby carrel, we found that, perched precariously astride the arms of the chair, we could just make the grab...
...uncanny repetition of last June, when Bennett first floated the prospect that Clinton?s defense would explore Jones? sexual history. He came under fire from women?s groups, and reversed course several days later, declaring he was "no fool." This time, Bennett may simply have gotten cold feet. But it's more likely that this astute purveyor of White House spin was sending a clear message to the media: We've got dirt too, and we're not afraid to use it. As with Bennett's revelation that Kathleen Willey was seeking a book deal, reporters read him loud...
Carrasco, towering over his colleagues at well-over six feet tall, opened the dialogue by questioning America's traditional constructs of race...