Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fringes of the city at three-minute intervals, young Ibo tribesmen dressed in clean white shirts and ties slapped "Anti-Panic Squad" signs on their cars and drove through the streets shouting for calm. Unpersuaded, civilians scooped up their children and whatever possessions they could carry and-on foot, by bicycle or riding in ancient automobiles or mammy wagons-swarmed into the main road leading to the northern town of Owerri, 45 miles away. Within a few hours after the shelling began, traffic was backed up 15 miles...
...member Charles Stead suggested that the City put foot patrolmen in the black areas around the clock and stop the "highballing"--speeding of trucks--along streets in black areas...
...foot blond was wailing at my feet. Having lost her mother amongst the myriad legs which stood like a forest around her, she given up in dispair, plumped down in the dust, her screams blending into the songs, her tears streaking through red mascara, raining like drops of blood on her legs...
...talks opened at the old Hotel Majestic on a matchless Paris spring morning. For the benefit of newsmen and photographers, Harriman, towering at least a foot above Hanoi's chunky Chief...
Then Porter flashed the kind of golf that made him a finalist at the Easterns. He chalked up three birdies on the last three holes--the last with a 40-foot putt on the 18th green--to take the match...