Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who looked beneath the bloody shirt soon learned what the waving was about. A move is afoot to "equalize" the pay of South Carolina's Negro school teachers. Negro teachers get an average of $70 a month; whites...
...Germans tried to keep the device secret. Only when the relentless bombings showed that the Allies knew what was afoot did the Germans begin bragging about the weapon's destructive potentialities. Correspondent Sulzberger's conclusion: the weapon has been pretty well spiked, cannot play any decisive role...
Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell wanted to see what, if anything, had gone wrong with his thesis that well fed and armed Chinese can fight as valiantly and skillfully as any other troops. He left his headquarters, flew to a forward base, then by jeep and afoot went back into the familiar Burma jungles. He doffed his three stars at a forward command post, donned dirty puttees and stained khaki, wormed up to forward observation posts to watch his U.S.-trained-and-equipped Chinese troops...
...York Times's scholarly Herbert L. Matthews (TIME, April 12) was with the Allied armies fighting on the plain of Naples. For a day Correspondent Matthews dropped his war reporting, hired a guide, went up Vesuvius in a jeep and afoot to sightsee. Then he wrote home...
...That was our imitation of nature. Ten minutes later the bombers passed over our heads and two of the escorting fighters came down and 'buzzed' the crater of Vesuvius. We envied them that bird's-eye view. For us there was nothing but to toil up afoot...