Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grace Wiley had never been afraid, she handled her reptiles patiently and lovingly, filled one room of her Cypress, Calif, home with over a hundred of them: King and Queen, the cobras; Roxy, the nine-foot python; Perky, the water moccasin. They made her hobby, her life's study and her reputation as one of the nation's top herpetologists. Last week she readily agreed to pose for pictures with her newest pet: a five-foot cobra she had just received from India...
...Jhelum front is a succession of giant hills which must be taken in turn. There are men on these hilltops who have been without baths and hot meals for three months, supplied by coolies who have to crawl up the mountain. On one 11,000-foot peak it takes a coolie 24 hours to carry up three mortar shells, and the wounded must be carried down on a man's back...
...would mean an ugly smear and having to start all over again. But Ch'ih Pai-shih never has to start over again, and he can turn out four or five of his delicate paintings a day. These he sells only on order, and only by the square foot (his price...
...relatives, and a whole year - and thousands of square feet - of orders to fill, there was little peace last week for Ch'ih Pai-shih. Once in a while he likes to drive out into the country to a quiet place where there is an eight-foot stone on which are carved the words: "The grave of Ch'ih Pai-shih...
When one testy Congressman shouted, "Why don't you all go home?" a photographer growled back: "Why don't you kiss my foot?" But this persistent, annoying hullabaloo paid off to newspapers and readers. The picture coverage of the Democratic Convention, and the G.O.P. Convention before it, was the most complete in journalistic history...