Word: footrest
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...President of the U.S. leaned back in his overstuffed leather chair, propped his size-10½ black Oxfords on a footrest, reached out his hand and sent a world globe spinning in its cradle. Then he thumped it to a stop with his finger. leaned forward and squinted. In the week of Laos, John F. Kennedy was thoroughly aware of Khrushchev's battle cry-and he didn't have to hear shells to believe that there...
...jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied the soft, warm, white, middle-aged flesh of his right side. Al just had time to realize he was being killed. He kicked out in such convulsive fright that he broke the chair's metal footrest. Then he lurched up in adenoidal agony and knocked over a bottle of bay rum. The two men who were killing him went placidly on with their work, and when Al crashed to the floor he was a pleasantly scented cadaver-a five holer, as it were, and badly...
...committee suggested, however that for these girls whose footrest in the subject, is still alive books on sex be and on open reserve in the Cliffe Library. At present the books are either closes reserve or hidden on the third floor among the theology books...