Word: foote
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...beautiful city, in this instance, is not San Francisco or Berlin; it's Mysore, in southern India, which each year draw several thousand yoga pilgrims from around the world. Mysore began its journey towards yoga mecca-dom in 1931, when a 40-something, five-foot-two-inch Brahmin was summoned by the ailing monarch of what was then a princely state under British tutelage. Numerous doctors had failed to cure the king's affliction, but the yogi succeeded within a few months, and the king rewarded him by building him a yogashala (yoga school) in his grand palace...
...FOOT IN THE DOOR...
...farce is mingled with the hardship of wearing last season’s heels). The second-story peristyle provided the backdrop for gowned and tuxedoed couples to make dramatic poses between the arches, to see and be seen. Upstairs, a senior in a tight scarlet dress balanced on one foot to adjust her shoe as she stared at Albert Bierstadt’s 1863 “Lander’s Peak.” It was American manifest destiny at its finest: a ray of sunlight bursting through the clouds above a towering range of imaginary mountains. Her date...
...fishermen, coast guard officials or harbor police. To ferret out the fakers, ships could send robot snoops like the Sentry, a jet ski-sized remote-controlled scout also developed by QinetiQ. For those who want to send out a stronger deterrent message, there's the "Protector," a 30-foot unmanned surface vessel developed by BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and an Israeli defence firm. In its military configuration, the Protector is equipped with a 7.62mm remote-controlled machine gun, enough to give most pirates pause. It could be used for commercial protection to investigate and intercept boats...
...kill Frederick before breakfast.Dressed, she left the house, descended the terrace steps, and set out for the stables.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *She paused outside the door of the gardener’s shed, her hand quivering lightly upon the latch. If she opened the door, if she dared to set even one foot across the threshold, the decision would be made, she would do it. She was suddenly aware of the fragrant air, astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over...