Word: foot-long
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...Shake It, Gal." At the Cobb County Fair in Marietta, Ga., the purple cotton candy and the foot-long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket...
...largest and heaviest of the Army's ballistic weapons, the 69-foot-long, six-feet thick Redstone blasted off into a starry, almost cloudless sky and appeared to make a successful flight...
...Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum's purchase list across...
...prisoner-of-war camps, he was studying at Purdue when a Danish classmate persuaded him to try his hand at running a carnival stand. The two men got a truck from a concession agency and joined the Northern Exposition Shows, "touring Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. At his "foot-long"' (hot dog) stand, Krassowski not only developed into an authority on carnies, he became a carny-a title conferred only upon those who have been fully accepted by one of the most clannish communities...
...Later, Alligator. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., after horrified school authorities closed her dormitory reptile zoo containing two turtles, a foot-long alligator and a scarlet king snake, Bryn Mawr College Sophomore Marianne McDonald sighed: "It seems hard to believe that everyone doesn't like reptiles-the little snake was a symphony in color...