Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naomi L. is breadwinner, father and mother to her brother, Julius, 10, who was born with a club foot. Naomi's father died suddenly in February of a heart attack. Her mother, Mrs. Annette L., 42, was unable to make ends meet on his small pension and Naomi took a clerking job after school to help...
...Come On Out, Son." Next day Chicago dazedly, sadly, tried to find out what had gone wrong. Known point was that the second-floor fire doors had been left open, making a flue for the flames. Not known was how the fire had started at the foot of the stair well itself. A cigarette tossed into wastepaper in the basement? Spontaneous combustion...
...Christmas, my true love gave to me," sing the carolers-and then everything goes haywire. "Four bars of soap," they trill, "three cans of peas, two breakfast foods, and some toothpaste on a pear tree." Later, they launch into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the snow in a 50-foot coupe." They stop to admire a cigarette-ad Santa Claus with a tattoo on each arm-one reading "Merry Christmas," the other "Less Tar"-and then jangle through Jingle Bells with a cash register clanking in the background...
...Columnist Jack Scott, 43, of the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, no target was ever more tempting than the Sun itself. He railed against the paper's promotion contests ("cynical seduction of a gullible public"), declared western Canada's biggest (circ. 211,012) and fattest daily was slow of foot and dull of eye. Critic Scott's proposal to brighten the Sun: "More deep reporting and vivid writing, the sort of thing that will grab the reader by the lapels and command his attention." Last September Scott got a chance to put up or shut up; Sun Publisher...
Fischer took the puck from Higginbottom at 3:46 and fired past goalie Armstrong from close range to make the score 2 to 1. Three minutes later, Vietze stopped a pass from Higginbottom at the blue line, akated in to the left and lifted a difficult 20-foot angle shot into the right corner of the cage...