Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed in his first fight against the Boers. He had a queer presentiment of impending fate, for he had spoken a good deal to us of the chances of death, and had even selected his own epitaph, so that on the little wooden cross which stands at the foot of Bastion Hill-the hill he himself took and held-there is written: "Is it well with the child? It is well...
...home town of Parry Sound, Ont.-and refurbishing the Orr homestead to boot. By the time he was 18, Bobby was in the Boston training camp with a two-year contract for $65,000 in his pocket. His teammates initiated him by shaving his body from head to foot, "Better that he got it from us first," growled one Bruin, "because everyone and his brother was in the wings waiting to get a piece...
...presidency, as Historian Clinton Rossiter notes, was characterized by "his airy eagerness to meet the age head-on." Instead, Nixon seems to view his office much as Cleveland did, and will probably work to push the country in the direction that he thinks it ought to go-with his foot poised between the brake and the accelerator...
...peace talks in Paris. He must continue preparing the South Vietnamese to assume more responsibility, but not undercut them by bargaining with the North behind their backs. He must allow the Saigon government to negotiate as an equal partner, but not permit it to exhaust U.S. public patience by foot dragging. In all this, an essential element is the reliability of the South Vietnamese government and the man who runs it, President Nguyen Van Thieu...
Three shiny 11-foot canoes in shades of lake blue, cardinal red, and marsh grass now occupy a major portion of the Coop's sporting goods department. Canoes among the books and records and Scrabble games at the Coop...