Word: footings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merchants in Compton, Calif, set aside one night exclusively for male Christmas shoppers; in their zeal, some hired foot-tall players to keep women...
When shooting broke out the night of his arrest, Chiang leaped from a rear window in his underwear. He scaled a ten-foot wall, stumbled into a deep moat and wrenched his back but climbed out and ran until he fell again, tripped by brambles in the darkness. He lost his false teeth. When overtaken, he once more insisted on being shot or sent back to Nanking...
These men are so evenly rated that the varsity coach still doesn't know which five will start tonight. Smith, a loose, six-foot five push shot and re-bound specialist, seems like a sure bet for one of the forwards. The other will be either sophomore Jim Gabler or ex-football player Pete Petrillo. In the pivot it will be either John "Rock" Rockwell or high Bill Prior...
...palace post office reported a record haul of 4,100 on one day), including one from President Truman, one from the Pope and one from General Eisenhower. "We are particularly happy," wired Ike, "because the birthday of the prince is the same as that of Mrs. Eisenhower." A six-foot battalion commander of the Home Guard sent a sweater knitted by himself. New York's National Institute of Diaper Services sent 100 diapers, each one stamped with the royal arms...
...teams "the Legion of Apostles" last week preached vaccination against deadly aftosa (foot & mouth disease). Across central Mexico, the missionaries of science marched ahead to prepare the way for the nine vaccinating brigades of the joint U.S.-Mexican anti-aftosa commission...