Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city detective and wiretapping expert named Kenneth Ryan (no kin to Clen) had been picked up. The mayor himself had broken him down in his City Hall office; $10,000 worth of telephone and tapping equipment had been found in the detective's Yonkers home. A plot was afoot, said O'Dwyer, to listen in on the telephones of several score of city officials (including his) and some big wheels in the Midwest. A prominent someone had given Ryan...
...Tony and upset Yale 47-45). When Williams tried guarding him with one man, he racked up 52. No one had so completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot and weak on defense, but Yalemen replied: "All Galli-Curci could do was sing." Tony Lavelli could shoot...
...have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps to fight again another...
Largely, in its observation of the ebb & flow of Communism's tide, the U.S. looked at the motherlands of Europe. For the rest of the world it found time only for the quick, uneasy glance. It knew there was trouble afoot in Southeast Asia, it had an uneasy conscience about China, where Communism was carving out a great political and military victory. Thanks partly to George Marshall's tactic of fighting Communism in Europe first, and partly to the influence of fellow travelers and gulliberals on U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. had never made up its mind...
Most of the weather-wise plains people battened down and bowed in submission to the storm. But in Kansas, Mrs. Maxine Laughlin, 30, of Jetmore, who was eight months pregnant, got in her car and drove to Dodge City for a prenatal checkup. The car stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans...