Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ohio man had to register a homemade howitzer that he uses to shoot cement-filled beer cans at trees he wants felled. Boise State College had to register the cannon that celebrates its foot ball team's touchdowns. A retired military man in Washington, D.C., listed two antitank guns. Miami officials registered a pistol made from a brier pipe. Boston discovered a 3.5-in. rocket launcher. Honolulu agents collected seven Chinese machine guns from G.I.s who were returning from Viet Nam. An Idaho farmer registered a fully assembled 90-mm. antiaircraft gun that he employs in a potato field...
Productive Leisure. The memoirs are part of what is rapidly becoming Abel's own five-foot shelf of recollected life and works. In a recent interview published in the Russian youth magazine Smena, he describes the gracious pastimes that a KGB colonel like himself engages in during his spare time: playing Bach on the lute and the classical guitar, landscape drawing. Abel's most productive leisure hours were apparently spent in U.S. penitentiaries while serving 41 of his 30-year sentence for espionage. Here, he claims, he sketched a portrait of President Kennedy so fine that Attorney General...
...left leg. Snap went a ligament in Hanratty's left knee, and that was the end of his season. Four days later, the Chicago Bears' breakaway halfback, Gale Sayers, hit similar trouble when he tried to turn the corner on an end run. He planted his right foot to cut downfield, and was hit from the side by San Francisco Cornerback Kermit Alexander. Sayers was carried off the field with three ruptured ligaments and a torn cartilage in his right knee. With him probably went the Bears' hopes of winning a divisional championship...
...suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when he yanked Dave Gordon half-dressed from the dressing room for the "dress rehearsal" was enough to grow boils on your heart. "Every minute is costing us money," he said on the way through the labyrinthine corridors...
Landing is no more difficult than jumping off a ten foot bureau. And finally all relationships are reestablished...