Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harmless" Civilians? If the war is just, does it matter what means are used to win it? Yes, says the commission: "A surgeon, driven to amputate a foot to save a patient's life, would be blameworthy if he unnecessarily cut off the whole leg." In the same way, a belligerent should seek to damage his enemy as lightly as possible and "shun all acts . . . calculated to breed hatred...
...this was only part of the worry. After redoing the local station on the C. & O. line, Mrs. Draper demanded that no smoke-belching locomotives be allowed within five miles of the place. But the coal-burning C. & O. put its foot down, let the steamers on through...
...times indicate. Stroke Charlie Rimmer pushed the stroke up to 38 with a half-mile left, but could not force the Crimson shell into the two-way struggle between the leaders, who widened the distance to a length and a quarter over Harvard before Princeton squeaked to a three-foot margin at the finish. Once again, Rutgers wallowed in its opponents' wakes
Winter sports enthusiasts cannot coast down a street on a sled without the mayor's permission, and even pedestrians are restricted. "No person," says one law, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travelers," and anyone who is still lottering five minutes after being told to leave by a policeman, is liable for arrest...
...gaping hole that the prostrate Gale leaves in this Olympic-bidding Varsity will be filled by Bob Taggart, a six-and-one-half foot sophomore who rowed seven on last year's first Freshman boat...