Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, heartily suspicious of Makarios, thought his proposal too vaguely worded, and just "another Makarios trick," decided to go ahead with "partnership" despite Greek protests. Only Turkey said "Howdy, podner." Its special representative reported for duty to British Governor Sir Hugh Foot. But to soften passions, the Turks appointed as their adviser to Foot not someone from Ankara-who might have been welcomed at the airport with bombs-but the Turkish consul general in Nicosia, who was already there. Shrugged 55-year-old Burhan Ishin, a husky onetime Turkish national soccer star and longtime diplomat: "After all, I can only...
...launching rocket, which reportedly is poised on its pad at Canaveral, is an 88-foot, three-stage affair. It carries an 85-pound payload, consisting of the satellite with some 25 pounds of instrumentation...
Flaming starkly in cold October air, the white fires of steel processing burn inexorably into the small hours of the morning. At the foot of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. freight train hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River. One of many steelworkers on the night shift of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a huge plant which stretches out of the city for almost five miles, lifts his goggles and sits on an iron pig to eat a supper of cold pork and white bread. For him, and thousands...
...course that trench fighting is way out of date now. But it was a stinking business: trench-foot, wet, trenchmouth, lice, mud, flu. I remember we used to open our tins of food and they'd be all blown up with gas and poison." He looks out over the dump silently, gazing...
Rockefeller organized his campaign in the same way he initiated million-dollar South American business enterprises. Before he set foot on the vote-pulling circuit, assistants drew up a set of 25 studies of the major problems of New York government, bound them in blue, annotated them for quick reference. He carries 18 of the reports with him, studies them between stops. He has a dozen people who normally work "for the family" following him (their salaries paid until November from his own $20,000 maximum campaign contribution). He is fretful when time is lost, and his relaxation sometimes takes...