Word: feets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them. Score: none sighted, none bagged. But they had other adventures. The tougher surfacings and a close scrape against the ice pushed in Sargo's sail, punched a pair of holes in its afterdeck, ripped out a plastic dome in its bow. Once the sub scraped within five feet of the ocean's bottom; another time it came within an ace of being frozen rock-solid...
...after the klaxon-Bulli was ready for taxiing. If command post should signal a Coco alert, Bulli would start rolling for the runway. A call of Juliet or Romeo would send him into the air by 11:07 (well ahead of the 15-minute maximum requirement) to 40,000 feet-plus...
Before a beginners' physics class at St. Louis' Washington University, Assistant Professor Edward Lambe plugged in an electric device that shot pennies at a metal disk a few feet away. The pennies scattered off the disk in a significant pattern, but Lambe was not using them to demonstrate the elasticity of metals, Newton's laws of motion, or anything else in classical physics. His penny routine was part of a discussion of what happens when alpha particles (helium nuclei) are shot at heavy atoms such as gold...
...relatively weak, left-handed shots from the pivot (18.1-point average). "Boston will gamble with its little men, knowing that Russell will get the rebound," says Syracuse Coach Paul Seymour. "He'll jump right out of the building. You'd think he was ten feet tall...
...chronicler of corporate Lancelots has abandoned the executive suite for the ducal fortress. He has done no such thing, of course. The Lords are not border chiefs but a matrimonial amalgam-Lincoln and Maggie Lord, that is. Lincoln is an organization mandible-a tanned, nobly hewn jaw suspended six feet from the floor and usually worth $50,000 a year because it inspires respect and belief when it flaps, strikes fear when it is silent. Pretty, intelligent Maggie, every tailored inch a corporation wife, wonders if there is anything more to her husband...