Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foot Pit. Hurrying home to his tiny, rented straw-mat room in an overcrowded shack on the city's outskirts, Kawamura eagerly told his fellow tenants what he had learned. Sure enough, they remembered that there was an old tombstone in the field, so deeply buried that only its top showed above the earth. Nobody knew whose grave it was. It had always been there...
...remote valley in North China, sets up a sort of motel for mule drivers ("the newspapers of North China") and has somebody tell them Bible stories while they eat. Meanwhile, she makes friends with the local mandarin (Donat), who gives her a civil service job as his Foot Inspector during the height of the campaign against binding the feet of female children; after that, the cheerful, hardworking, God-fearing young woman is known for miles around as "Jen-Ai" (The One Who Loves People). She fights for the rights of women and prisoners, brings medicine to the local bandits, makes...
Already suffering from a loss of height, the varsity quintet will face Northeastern tonight and Tufts tomorrow night without the services of 6 ft., 8 in. Griff McClellan, who is now in Stillman nursing an infected foot...
...foot high Thor was fired by the same type of crew that would launch it in the field under combat conditions...
IC4A king John Lawlor of B.U. and his teammate Eino Keerd figure to dominate the 35-lb. weight event, varsity coach Bill McCurday said last night. McCurdy thinks that chances are particularly dim, since Jim Doty, the Crimson's best weight man, is still out with a broken foot sustained over a month ago. Keerd and B.U.'s Larry Cafarella, both of whom have thrown 54 feet in competition, should sweep the shotput with little opposition...