Word: foot-long
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...powder-blue coats and red shoes. Caroline was solemn and open-eyed. But John-John capered about, tugging at his mother's hand, and had to be sent from the rotunda with his nurse. When he left the Capitol later he was clutching a small flag on a foot-long stick. He had spotted it in the office of House Speaker John McCormack and firmly announced, "I want that flag to take home to my daddy...
...airlifted anywhere else on earth to fight brushfire actions or full-scale war. This week, in preparation for their new role, they will begin intensive training in tactical nuclear armaments-though no weapon ever devised has proved more deadly in a Gurkha's hands than the curved, foot-long kukri, or knife, that they still carry at their belt and superstitiously refuse to unsheathe except to draw blood...
...fishing newcomers weren't hard to find. Miss Amy Dalrymple was the first to discover the Wharf's potential for residential purposes, but she was soon followed by dozens of Bostonians eager for a window on the sea. The 75-foot-long rooms were divided into 25 by 50 foot spaces, especially useful as studios and flats for artists, writers, and Bohemian seekers of the unusual...
During the '30s, running a frankfurter concession, Parker beat the foot-long hot-dog fad by using foot-long buns, sticking a bit of frank into each end, and filling up the middle with onions. When the suckers howled, he pointed to little chunks of hot dog previously arranged on the ground, said: "You dropped your meat, son, now just move along." Later, as a carny pressagent, he got interested in singers, profitably managed Gene Austin, Hank Snow and Eddie Arnold before he found the boy with the coin in the groin...
...Limbo. Since then, none of the superficial necessities or reasonable rewards of life have eluded Sculptor Moore. Always a good businessman, Moore is selling as fast as he cares to produce, at prices ranging from about $1,000 for foot-long figures to about $15,000 for each of five bronze casts being made of his UNESCO working model. He has a new car (a Rover) in the garage, a secretary to handle his correspondence, and a 13-year-old daughter, Mary, that he dotes...