Word: foote
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...vocabulary to one word. “General Mills didn’t really allow me to speak—I just went ‘Woohoo!’ when people poked my stomach,” she said. Never mind that the idea of a 6-foot-tall Doughboy with a mind of its own is vaguely alarming. “Some people said I was creepy,” said Lin. “Especially when I started walking—people said that was really scary.” The job might not have been ideal...
...ambition than to his own self-image - before he was hanged, he had requested nothing more than a humble marble slab like those on the graves of his ancestors in the family plot. But, conscious of the power of image in Pakistani politics, Benazir opted instead for the 130-foot onion dome. Impressive as its facade may be, however, it conceals a shabby interior of chipped marble floors and peeling concrete pillars. The walls bear spray-painted messages in support of her estranged brother, Murtaza Bhutto, murdered by unknown assailants 11 years ago. Not that she'll see these slogans...
...liked to have his dinner while watching his opponents painfully die on a stake) used to inhabit Bran Castle. This, however, is merely a myth, which has its roots in the famous novel by Bram Stoker, and no one knows for sure whether the local ruler ever actually set foot in the castle. Still, on the rumor, 450,000 tourists visit it each year. Now it has become the subject of an escalating political dispute in Bucharest...
...defeat, falling 17-11 to George Washington.Marked by offensive inconsistency and an unusual number of turnovers, Harvard resembled a shell of its normally balanced self en route to a frustratingly dismal weekend.“There were a couple of drops in intensity where our passes were about a foot off,” co-captain Chris Ludwick said. “The execution just wasn’t there, and we came out a little bit slow in all three games.”GEORGE WASHINGTON 17, HARVARD 11Trying to rebound from its first losing streak of the season...
...most likely - the median - temperature increase: 2.6 degrees C or 4.7 degrees F. Now it might get warmer than that. But it also might be cooler than that. This is the most likely outcome, what most people call the business-as-usual scenario. Likewise when I say "a one-foot rise in sea level," the U.N. says it's somewhere between half and 2 feet. It seems to me that saying 20, as Al Gore famously said, is cherry-picking...