Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Code Lights & Pingpong. Inside the dormitory the new arrivals found their quarters (two men to a room). As they picked their way down the line of duffel bags, foot lockers, skis, banjos, rifles and packs, the "doolies,"* i.e., plebes, had to halt before passing an upperclassman to ask "By your leave, sir." In the well-outfitted rooms, other cadets pored over manuals, searching for instructions on where to place skivvies in the gleaming walnut dressers, where to hang battle jackets behind the handsome sliding panels of their closets. Instead of commands from a bull-voiced sergeant, they got fresh instructions...
Elliott had plenty of reason to be tired. His Oslo race completed the greatest sustained middle-distance performance in the history of foot racing. High spot: setting the mile record at Dublin last month in the startling time of 3:54.5. He has shown endurance as remarkable as his speed: the day after he set his 1,500-meter record, he breezed through a mile in 3:58. In all, Elliott broke four minutes for the mile in every one of his ten races this year. Track experts foresee that if he keeps his determination, the lean...
Born 20 years ago to a furniture dealer outside of Perth, Herbert James Elliott was good enough as a high school champion to run the mile in 4:22. When he broke his foot moving the family piano, Elliott gave up big-time racing, turned to high living, late nights and beer. Not until his father took him to the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne did Herb Elliott develop the spark of desire and discipline necessary for the lonely art of the mile...
Last year Foley greeted new Governor Sir Hugh Foot with quiet approval-until he became convinced that Colonial Office blimps were directing Foot into the same clumsy repression that undid his predecessor. One recent battle: a successful fight for the release of the editor of the island's largest Greek-language newspaper, jailed for refusing to kill a story...
...through a repressed childhood, rebelling vainly under a luxuriance of shoulder-length curls, which his mother finally cut during his fifth year. The older brothers were impressed, in rotating succession, as Milton's nursemaids, a boring duty that Dwight relieved by rocking Milton's cradle with one foot while absorbed in a book. Earl, 19 months older than Milton, was held out of school for a year so that little Milton could enjoy his protective custody...