Word: footways
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Then Robertson decided on bold action. He and his men strode confidently out in the open, toward a German-blown bridge whose twisted girders offered a precarious footway across the river. The Russians decided that only Americans would do such a thing. While Robertson's party picked its way over the girders, two Russian officers scrambled out from the eastern end. In the center, only a few feet over the swift-running water, the men of Eisenhower and the men of Stalin met. Robertson slapped a Russian leg and cried: "Hello, Tovarish! Put it there...
...work? What is a trail; anyway? A trail is cleared "when it has been made so passable by removal of growth of all sorts that a tramper with pack and horizontal blanket-roll, proceeding steadily, upright will encounter no obstructions, and will be able to see the footway a few steps ahead." The work consists of subtracting from the natural growth of the forest along the route of the trail whatever is necessary to reduce it to the above qualifications...
...each man should take the very slight trouble necessary, and replace the book in its proper place after using, he would save an infinite amount of annoyance and trouble to other men and would benefit himself as well. For if the idea once gets footway that every man is expected to replace books when he is through to replace books when he is through reading them, men would feel the necessity of doing it, and all would be mutually benefited...
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