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Word: footings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancient engineers dug deep tunnels under city walls to nearby springs. Once the source had been tapped and its waters brought underground into the city, the municipal water supply could not be cut off by besieging armies. When he surveyed the Hazor tell last fall, Yadin saw at its foot a network of seeping springs. Above them, atop the tell, was a large, shallow depression. Sure that the springs and the depression were related, Yadin put 160 diggers to work sinking test holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Hazor's Hidden Resource | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...crucial match, which could have give Harvard the victory, was Barney Oldfield's against Indian Jim Cox. Oldfield was 2 down with 3 to go on the 16th green. He had a 3-foot putt for a birdie and a possible win on the hole. A damaged green prevented his putt from falling in. Cox sank his putt for a birdie and defeated Oldfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Winning Streak Halted; Dartmouth Conquers Crimson, 4-3 | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...APOLLO 10. The eight-day mission scheduled to begin May 18 will put Veteran Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young into lunar orbit for 62 hours. Apollo 10, according to Stafford, will "tie together all the knots and sort out all the unknowns" before U.S. astronauts set foot on the moon in a mission that is now scheduled for launch on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is the Moon the Limit for the U.S.? | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...needle clean? If you haven't been too nervous, if you haven't forgotten, if you aren't jumping from foot to foot, then the calmness of extreme pathology has come over you, the worm of murder in your mouth, then you remembered to bolt the door, to boil the stick; what a laugh you have, man! What a weird cat would like the way you laugh! Colors mean nothing to you; the flying Byrds, the opening Doors, the Rolling Stones, they are nothing at all for you--that's it! Here it is. Welcome...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Last Stop. | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...only defeat Harvard suffered was Tommy Wynne's 1-up loss to Eli Larry Oxford. Oxford dropped a ten-foot down-hill putt on the last hole to keep the Elis from being shutout a second consecutive time this season. The Yale team lost 7-0 to Princeton on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Trounces Bulldogs, 6-1; First Defeat of Yale in 12 Years | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

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