Word: four-footed
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Instead of a social life, the young Virginia had her books. When she was not reading she was writing, at a peculiar four-foot desk, at which she stood to work, like a painter at an easel. "When I see pen and ink," she wrote to Lady Robert Cecil, "I can't help taking to it, as some people do to gin." This was her exercise and her liberation...
With Barry Cronin on second after a double, Driscoll belted a Jim Walker pitch deep to left fielder Mark McHugh, who made a tremendous leaping catch of the ball as he crashed into the flimsy temporary fence (a four-foot high, wooden-slatted snow fence) that bounds the outfield. The Husky outfielder fell onto and collapsed the fence winding up on the other side...
Mark D. Epstein '75 reported seeing four hooded thieves clothed in black lowering the four-foot copper bird by rope to a van parked on Mt. Auburn Street about 5 a.m. Wednesday...
...sagacious planning and brilliant design, there will be one major problem: construction. The library's site is, unfortunately, on a bed of rock that will have to be blasted out before building can start. There will be a considerable amount of noise next year while construction crews dig the four-foot deep hole in which the library will rest...
...sheriff's deputies were digging at the four-foot level when they unearthed a human toe; soon they had dug up the whole body. Then last week a farm hand working on a nearby ranch spotted a suspicious-looking mound. The sheriff's men went back to work and quickly came up with a second corpse. That touched off a thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned...