footlocker
Americannoun
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footlockers
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Origin of footlocker
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Urrea’s mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlin de Urrea, had served in World War II as a volunteer with the American Red Cross and still possessed her Army-issued footlocker.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
Lombardi seeks to sue the Department of Corrections for negligence after he says his leg was cut on the sharp edge of a footlocker in his cell.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
When she was a child, Tammone found Glass’ footlocker from Hollywood and remembered analyzing her mother’s old greasepaint, the sticky makeup oily to the touch.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
Professor Pieixoto describes the challenges of transcribing the story we’ve just read from 30 cassette tapes found in an army footlocker.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
He checked the valve on the tank that it was turned off and swung the little stove around on the footlocker and sat and went to work dismantling it.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
He wrote his own jokes and carried 15 footlockers of props.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
They sat on banquettes around the walls and used footlockers beneath them.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 6, 2020
Perched before them, catlike atop a pair of footlockers, Staff Sgt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2012
On election day, 94% of the more than 9,000,000 eligible voters trooped to South Korea's 6,342 polling places to mark their ballots with inked bamboo sticks and drop them into large boxes resembling footlockers.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of my first recollections of you was at a Company inspection in which all the footlockers were open for inspection.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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