Word: foot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dense forest beyond the barbed wire fence as raindrops splattered about them. Puddles. Lots of them. Cops and reporters, too. Not on mention an 80-per-cent complete atomic power plant. But where were the anti-nuclear protesters, the non-violent commandos who were planning to scale those eight-foot tall barriers and stage a mass-occupation...
Arriving at a national guard outpost in northeast Managua, the heart of the fighting last week in strife-racked Nicaragua, ABC Correspondent Bill Stewart sensed it would be safer to approach on foot. Though his van was emblazoned with FOREIGN PRESS signs, he did not want to do anything that might spook the government troops. In one hand Stewart carried his government-issue press pass; in the other, he held a white flag. His interpreter walked several yards ahead, explaining that they meant no harm...
...been even B-plus efforts. Wild Oats is a refreshing exception. Recent Yale Graduate Jacob Epstein set his low-key whimsy at fictitious Beacham University, a liberal arts college with a hundred-year tradition of the second-rate. Its off-centerpiece, Billy Williams, literally starts off on the wrong foot by stepping on the college master's dachshund at a cocktail party. He writes a term paper on the Iliad titled "The Shoes of the Greeks," falls for a coed named Zizi Zanzibar and takes Chinese so he can know "something hardly anyone else knew, except for several hundred...
...spur greater effort in developing alternative energy sources, and 3) form a united purchasing front. If forceful joint action can be decided in all three areas, some slack could be reintroduced into the world oil market and some sanity returned to its pricing. In Paris last week, "Sherpas"-the foot-slogging diplomats and economists who have been preparing the climb to the summit for four months-were still poring over a number of possible actions. Among them...
They are feetlike, ordinary. They do not look interesting, but they look tired, and it is time to wedge them down between the sheets to the bed's own foot, where they will wiggle a bit and then fall dormant. The man lifts his feet into bed, but as he does, he feels the tingle of a half-formed thought. Oddly, it is about umbrellas. Something about umbrellas getting mixed up in restaurants. It is not the dazzling sort of thought that stings the thinker into wakefulness, and the man does not follow it to its conclusion, if there were...