Word: snugness
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...rearrange and brace the whole weakened structure he designed a shoe with a high, stiff, snug counter. This keeps the heel directly under the tibia, puts the heel in a straight line with the base and tip of the big toe, warps the instep into a springy arch. Shoes, according to Dr. Schwartz, must have heels to help throw the body forward while walking. Men's heels should be supported eight eighths of an inch-from the ground, women's fourteen eighths, says...
Byrnes Bomb. Late one afternoon the Senate sat placidly putting the finishing touches on the revised Guffey Coal Bill. Passage within ten minutes seemed assured, and contented Senators' minds were beginning to turn to thoughts of cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose...
...sector 13 miles, and delivered their first major blows outside of Spain proper by sending a fleet of bombers and the battleship Jaime Primero across the Straits of Gibraltar to shell and strafe Ceuta, important supply base in Spanish Morocco which, ever since the war began, has been Rightist. Snug in Gibraltar last week Britons saw dense clouds of smoke erupt from Ceuta, suggesting Leftist success in setting fire to Rightist docks and warehouses crammed with food and munitions...
...spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that the hotel business was no longer what it had been anyway, replaced his father's palatial edifice with groups of snug cottages. He went on paying low wages, giving away $100 bills, warning his employes never to marry, in general behaving with the gruffness expected of him. Last January, after two years of bitter wrangling with the village of Saranac Lake which has threatened to put up a municipal power plant...
...Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount Royal, and Montreal became about as venturesome as the Bank of England...