Word: two-foot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President when he sat down at his desk at Lowry Air Force Base at 7:45. During his seven-day absence, three large leather pouches, chained and padlocked, had arrived in Denver. Dozens of letters, written and typed up in Washington, awaited his approval and signature. The two-foot pile of "urgent" papers before him was higher than the length of the rainbow trout. With an audible sigh, Dwight Eisenhower settled down to work...
...north, at the Baltic Sea, an old German stood in sorrow, watching the waves curling up the gritty beach at the seaside town of Travemünde. The waves split on a two-foot iron stake threaded with barbed wire. "The Communists," he said, "are not content with splitting our country. They are even splitting...
Winston Balks. Five companies of Foot Guards, brave in their two-foot bearskins, scarlet tunics and white belts, wheeled in long-lined precision into Whitehall's Horse Guards Parade. Each man was polished until he shone: each had been issued a lump of barley sugar, which was supposed to stave off faintness (in at least three cases, it didn't). Sharp at 11 a.m., as the two-toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief...
While awaiting the river's assault, the more populous Omaha-Council Bluffs area worked feverishly to strengthen flood walls, assisted by thousands of Army troops, National Guardsmen and Army Engineers. A two-foot "flashboard" was being added to the 31½-ft. levee and flood wall at Omaha. But its value was as much psychological as physical. Few expected the levee to withstand the pressure of a predicted 31½-ft. flood crest. After inspecting the inadequate dikes and flood walls, Brigadier General Don G. Shingler, Missouri River Division Engineer, remarked gloomily: "The Missouri is coming with...
...vision faded. Instead of the Stadium, grieved. Vag sitting in front of the new, giant two-foot screen. Vag drinking a glass of the sponsor's beer. Young Vag reading a comic book in the near-dark, asking Vag to turn it off, or get a better show. Vag watching Hopalong...