Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite the every-other-day bombardment. Casualties to date: one carrier boy slightly injured by shrapnel, one decommissioned jeep...
...Crimson went ahead for the last time minutes later when Mike Donohue sank a 30-foot push shot with five and one-half minutes to play. It was then that the Lord Jeffs ran off their string of ten which iced the contest...
There were scarcely any changes in the script: the curtain rose on a sleeping city, a soft wind stirred the camel-foot trees along the Nile. At midnight armored cars, Bren gun carriers, lorries packed with troops rolled out from the suburban barracks and into Khartoum and its sister cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North. One unit occupied the radio station; another took over the telephone exchange. Troops in pompon hats and khaki shorts were dropped off in front of the houses of prominent politicians. At 5 a.m. the officeholders were rudely awakened, handed letters firing them from their jobs...
Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro, pushing out foot by foot from the Sierra Maestra, near which he landed Dec. 2, 1956. now dominates a third of the island's land area (see map). His strength in guerrillas and arms is rising, but exactly how much is a secret veiled by the downed wires and cut roads that go into the wild country he lurks in. Dictator Fulgencio Batista keeps a hold on Havana, where a fifth of all Cubans live, and all other sizable cities, and still controls the labor unions, most of the press, an army estimated...
...National League records that still stand). He batted over .300 in eleven seasons, led the league in homers six times, wound up with a lifetime average of .304. Giant fans called Mel Ott "the Little Giant," watched fondly as he took his straight-up, lefthanded stance, kicked his right foot up to get all his 160 lbs. into the swing, and pumped another home run into the stands...