Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling him someone else is coming in. The need for secrecy was so important that in the midst of negotiations, Roosa even donned a tuxedo in the office and went off to a scheduled piano recital at the Polish embassy lest anyone suspect by his absence what was afoot. He kept a car waiting outside with its motor running, just in case...
...more than the Treasury is needed, so they would create a great National Square that gives a distinguished destination for the avenue, provides access through a monumental gate to the White House grounds, and offers a car-free plaza for people afoot. Halfway between there and the Capitol, they take advantage of the fact that the National Gallery and the Archives Building now sit facing each other unrelatedly on opposite sides of the avenue, and would create another big Market Square that gives vistas of the façades of both buildings...
...works-half again as many as 15 years ago-and one in every three workers is a woman. The number of women in the labor force, which stands at 25 million, is growing by 2.5% a year, compared with a 1.4% gain for men. Last week several steps were afoot to open still more jobs to women...
This is a pretty depressing state, and I've had a close look at some of its most depressing parts in the last couple of weeks. J--and myself were set afoot on highway 49 last week when a gun-waving state cop arrested everybody in our party with a Mississippi license and impounded our car. We later heard that he had some local yahoos out looking for us, but we walked the twenty miles from Yazoo City to Flora in the ditches along the roadside. Yazoo City is a bad problem; we managed to get a lady...
Mann believes that the real hope for a peaceful, prosperous Latin America in the future lies beyond the Alianza-in each nation's pride in itself. Says he: "There are two kinds of nationalism afoot in Latin America. The first kind, I believe, is the best bulwark we've got against the Communists, and the Latin American who doesn't sense it isn't doing his country a bit of good. This kind of nationalism means knowing who you are and for what your country stands. But there's another kind-xenophobic nationalism. This...