Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assurance of considerable Republican support. In fact, he had hoped to have enough votes to apply cloture (limitation of debate), break the Southerners' filibuster, write a new rule widening cloture power,-* and, in the end, pass Harry Truman's civil rights program. Then Harry Truman put his foot...
...utilized atomic energy to lay the two-ton cornerstone of its new building in Manhattan; a miniature nuclear reactor split ten U-235 atoms generating an electrical impulse which burned a ceremonial ribbon, touched off a magnesium flare and caused a chain hoist to lower the stone one foot into position...
When fire destroyed her home in a Chicago suburb, 14-year-old Roberta Lee Mason rescued four brothers & sisters. But she was burned so badly that she had to be swathed in bandages from head to foot. Her throat-catching picture (TIME, Feb. 28) made front pages across the U.S. Soon money, clothes, even chewing gum began to pour in; everybody wanted to "do something for Roberta." But what the Masons needed was a new house...
Although the smouldering partitions were barely a foot away from sprinkler pipes, none of these had been set off by the heat. Faulty wiring was blamed for the incident...
...outbreak of foot and mouth disease...