Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admit that Uncle Sam, in the question of the Palestine Partition Plan, put his foot into it and now doesn't know how to get it out, gracefully or otherwise...
...blustery storm out of the South bothered Harry Truman, he gave no outward sign of it. But inwardly he felt some sinking sensations last week. They came from another storm: a 40-knot northeast wind that whipped up ten-foot waves and tossed, the presidential yacht Williamsburg around like a cockleshell under a bathtub faucet...
Barring an act of Good on the way, three lines and a couple of defensive units, not to mention a goalie, will still take the ice; but a recent injury to George Minot's foot jeopardizes his usefulness on the first line for tonight's encounter. His absence will further cripple an offensive punch already weakened by the loss of Tom Moseley from the second line...
...coastal jungle of Vera Cruz state, bulldozers chewed their way last week through rain forests and matted vines. They were clearing a path across the waist of Mexico for an 800-mile-long fence. Its purpose: to check the northward spread of aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease), which had already infected about one-sixth of Mexico's 13 million head of cattle and brought nightmares to Texas ranchers...
...sheathe the steel girders against fire. This saved so much weight that they were able to use lighter girders, eliminated 1,200 tons of steel. Another big office-building job, Prudential Insurance Co. of America's $8,500,000 building, will be the lightest building (per square foot) in Los Angeles...