Word: feets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Democratic convention in Los Angeles in August, the Clintons were a team (right). But the body language on election night was telling. At Hillary's rally, the President kept sidling over for a hug, and Hillary kept striding away. There she stood, firmly, on her own two feet...
...Here's what I mean. New York sidewalks are about eight feet wide. And there you are, walking up Madison Avenue and coming in the opposite direction is a family from Omaha, Nebraska, mother, father, three children, walking five across, taking up the whole sidewalk, so that anyone who wants to get by must either trudge into the street, hug the wall of a building, or bust through like a fullback on third...
...later life, Schulz joked that he looked like a druggist. Genial, smiling, with straight white teeth and a head of silver hair, he dressed modestly in muted slacks and pastel golf sweaters. He stood a trim five feet eleven and a half inches ("I never quite got to six feet") and liked to sprawl after work in a big blue leather easy chair, his long legs pointing straight at the TV set. "People say 'Where do you get your ideas?'" he once recalled, "because they look at me and they think, Surely this man could never think of anything funny...
...toothless. They could deny importers access to government-approved labels, rendering the drugs unsaleable in the U.S.; they could make deals with importers to keep their drugs at higher prices. And with only a five-year term for the plan, wholesalers and drug companies alike might just drag their feet until the clock...
...then Boies is on his feet, calmly elucidating--without notes, of course--the four essential points of his argument, his hands sometimes shaking the invisible box, his thumbs sometimes making a pair of goalposts. He cites page numbers and percentages and the specific copyright status of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and My Man Godfrey. Then the sun rises in the west: Boies asks the court's forbearance while he looks up a page number he cannot recall...