Word: footings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooks said that Cambridge can expect only three more inches of snow this year, and upper New Hampshire less than one foot. He based his figures on records of past years...
...players on the peek-preview team have a good chance of staying on all spring. They include Bill Rickenbacker, junior champion of New York City; Hugh Nawn, number-one man on the '51 freshman team; and Sam Seagar, who beat Princeton last year on a 12-foot putt after dark...
Harry Cain wanted to attack the appointment of a fellow Washingtonian, Truman Crony Mon C. Wallgren, as chairman of the vital National Security Resources Board. Cain talked for more than six hours, scratching under his arms, hitching at his trousers, sipping milk and raising one foot after the other so that his male secretary could change his shoes. Mrs. Cain, who has filed a suit for divorce, sat in the gallery the whole time, watching her husband admiringly...
Last week Kawarasaki had a new audience to flatter. In the presence of fire-eating Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda (who presumably had promised to foot the bills), Kawarasaki and 71 Zenshinza players joined the Communist Party. "After all," explained the ex-emancipator, "Lincolnism and Marxism are not exactly the same, but they have many similarities...
Pretty Vivien Leigh tripped daintily up the narrow, old-fashioned stairs in her London home, caught her foot in the hem of the fur coat she was carrying, tumbled down again. A sprained back forced her to step out of her three current Old Vic roles for two weeks. Said Vivien: "It was a beautiful fall." Said husband Sir Laurence Olivier: "My God, I thought she had broken her neck...