Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duty. In Evansville, Ind., a thief stole an eight-foot painting of Christ from the Camp Reveal chapel, carried it out past a neon sign flashing, "He watches you every minute...
...years politicians have thought that criticizing Brazil's government oil monopoly, Petrobrás. was a quick route to private life. But last week Sáo Paulo's often demagogic Governor Jánio Quadros-who wants the presidency in 1960-pointedly censured the ineffectual, foot-dragging state enterprise...
...They're mad, simply mad," cooed a Los Angeles coed out shopping for her fall regalia last week. What drives the girls mad-and may well make the boys a lot madder-is this fall's latest fashion: a glove-tight, foot-to-waist cross between Ebenezer's red flannel long Johns and Fonteyn's ballet costume. The biggest thing since Bermuda shorts, the new tights emphasize that slender, leggy look everyone strives for. Children wear them for play, college girls in class under skirt or kilt; working girls and young matrons buy them for lounging...
...Where he inspected his old World War I regiment, the Grenadier Guards, "the finest regiment in the brigade." The other regiments in the Brigade of Foot Guards: Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh...
...days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl: "I'm six foot two and a half tall; I've got to start some time." Replies Robert Morse, his shy fellow clerk: "I'm five foot five, so it isn't so urgent for me." Brought off at breakneck speed amidst a kaleidoscope of neck-breaking pratfalls, this chatter and unabashed...