Word: feets
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...Seton, who names history and social studies as possible concentrations, says he will concentrate on a few issues and "get his feet wet" on the council. He also wants to get involved with a singing group at Harvard--something he says he loved in high school--and find out about community service opportunities involving tutoring...
...created such a following by the early '70s that authoritarian leaders tried to have a truck kill him on the highway. When that attempt only injured Kim, Korean intelligence officers were sent to drown him at sea. With concrete blocks tied to his feet, he was moments from death when American officials in Seoul came to the rescue. His third encounter with death came in 1980, when a court ordered him to be hanged on charges of treason. International pressure again saved him, reducing his sentence to life in prison...
...Downstairs, the minders had sensed restlessness among the journalists, so they preemptively hustled us into buses for a "city tour." The first stop was the memorial to Kim Il Sung's first speech after the defeat of the Japanese. It was a big mosaic, about 20-by-80 feet, depicting happy farmers, machinists and artists looking on in adoration as the original Great Leader spoke. In front of a stadium just past the mural, an old woman with an overstuffed rucksack and a younger man also with a heavy sack on his back got up and started wandering away, frightened...
...Gore says he is for "revolutionary change" but hasn't really proposed any; he is running with his fists balled, itching for a fight - you ain't seen nothin' yet! - even though his entire platform amounts to massaging the feet of the middle class every bit as faithfully as Bill Clinton has these past eight years. Bush's message meanwhile is so soothing - can't we all just get along? - and yet his reforms of Medicare and Social Security and education offer more change than anything either party has proposed in years, and that's just the agenda he admits...
...games that are the sport's full carnival, offers an individualism of faces, closeups of intense privacy (pitchers thinking, scratching themselves, anguishing, waving off the sign, spitting, trying to deliver a ball very hard from mound to plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were hurling darts 60 feet down a hospital corridor at a patient's neocortex). The spectacle has something in common with a bullfight - matador on the mound, bull at the plate, multitudes eating and drinking and whooping in the stands in a tableau of casual, ceremonious pageantry...