Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plainly, one foundation stone in this structure is the International Court of Justice. It is heartening to note that a strong movement is afoot in many parts of the world to increase acceptance of the obligatory jurisdiction of that court. I congratulate India on the leadership and vision she has shown in her new declaration [Sept. 14] accepting its jurisdiction...
...perfectly. Hedreen, of course, was instrumental in the triumph with his scoring and play-making at center. Sweeney gave the varsity the hard-charging inside it needed to team with scrappy John Mudd, and Ekpebu, at his old haunt, left wing, dazzled the Quakers with his dribbling and speed afoot...
Alone and afoot on Hollywood Boulevard in the small hours, TV's volatile Producer-Actor Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz, 42, was collared last month by roving plain-clothes vice squadmen, booked on a "plain drunk" rap. Protesting his sobriety and threatening to call his friend, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, into the case, Arnaz finally coughed up $21 bail, was driven home by his chauffeur. Last week when the case came up in court, Arnaz did not. Bail forfeited. Case closed...
Despite these potholes in the road, the bold adventurers on 128 say that the period of biggest growth is ahead. So many research-based companies were being formed around Boston last week that plans were afoot to build another highway, swinging out beyond 128, to accommodate them. The believers in the Space Highway hold that when the climate produces ideas, growth is sure to follow...
...onetime locomotive engineer, insisted, as he later put it, that there were "diabolic" plots afoot, "strikes, riots, then real violence culminating in assassination of whites and Africans." In the end, Armitage, who himself expressed no such fears, transmitted them to London, proclaimed an emergency in Nyasaland, began mass arrests, and banned the African National Congress, which he conceded was the most popular political movement in a land where there are 3,000,000 blacks and only 8,000 whites. These fateful steps were taken after a week of jitteriness (TIME, March 9) in which men lost their lives...