Word: foot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paying small heed to those about her, the goodwife sipped the water, prayed quietly. Suddenly she felt "the pricking of needles" all over her. Slipping off her shoe and brace, Mrs. Geraci stepped into the pool. She clambered out, jumped up & down, flexed her muscles, exhibited a healthy left foot. Everyone shouted...
...Geraci almost ran the ten blocks back home, to show her foot to her husband, a tailor who had lost his faith 31 years ago when an earthquake in Italy wiped out his family. "I believe! I believe!" cried Anthony Geraci, and rushed back to St. Lucy's with his wife. Soon there was such a press round the Geracis at the shrine that police had to be called. As the crowds continued to grow, Father Lombardo, who had heard of small "favors" (minor cures) at the shrine, said of Mrs. Geraci's healing: "It is a miracle...
...Bronx doctor who said he had examined Mrs. Geraci seven years ago declared she had been afflicted with "flip walk," result of flaccid paralysis. At week's end no physician had publicly attested her foot healed...
...years the New York Stock Exchange has tried to put its best foot forward to the public. For six years the Exchange has wondered why its wooing has not produced a spark of reciprocal affection. Last week the Exchange hired Elmo Roper, chief researcher of FORTUNE'S famed polls of public opinion, for a special job: to find out what the middle and upper income people of the U. S. now think of the Exchange. Object: to improve its style of wooing...
Over one 15,000-foot pass after another climbed Author Kaulback as spring melted the ice barriers in the rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone...