Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunately the Crimson is blessed with two men who are experts in the art of handling a 12-foot dinghy. Both products of the yachting center at Marblehead, these men, Pete Putnam and Frank Scullay, are in large part responsible for the Crimson's recent sailing fortune...
...Nation," TIME, May 2: Last Sunday we thrust our dinner between slices of bread, jumped into old clothes, tossed our youngest into her stroller, handed our boy the fishpoles, met two friends and took off-on foot. We walked about two miles to the local reservoir, sniffing Nature and listening to our shoes flapping happily on the old narrow road. When we got there, we spread a blanket and a lunch, and annoyed a few fish until suppertime...
...night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC television transmitter can be picked out of the air, a large part of the population has its eyes fixed on a TV screen...
...Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol plastic and molded a complete 35-lb. cabinet, the biggest plastic "casting" made...
...morale and esprit which Coach Bolles feels is the most important cause of all. It is an esprit which can only come from eight oarsmen, a cox, and a coach who are dogged enough to spend months in the cold wind or broiling sun learning to pull a 12-foot oar through the water with the precision and power to win races on perhaps five Saturday afternoons in a year and to pull just as hard despite the fact that 99 out of 100 people who watch them don't even know their names...