Word: afoot
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...Hamm have been very closely paired since the fall. Each man has defeated the other once in three sets, and both of them have fast, powerful, and, at times erratic games. Weld and Wood form a curious contrast, with Weld's slow, accurate game pitted against Wood's speed afoot and his aggressive tactics...
...crusade is afoot. Perhaps it is a conspiracy. It started when a couple of people sent bills to the State Legislature. But that didn't mean much because everybody does that. Then, four days ago Richard I. Furbush, President of the State Senate, wrote a letter to Governor Herter. "I feel, Governor," the senator spoke out, "that there are so many persons throughout the country who are singing the praises of Massachusetts that an opportunity should be given them to put it to words and music...
...beat is often far from journalism's trodden paths. He has traveled some 225,000 miles by plane, train, car, marsh-buggy, horseback and afoot about the U.S. His stories have taken him farther into the backwoods and wilderness than even regional reporters get. His contacts along the way include everyone who can add to his knowledge : city, state and Chamber of Commerce officials, Bureau of Reclamation or Forestry Service agents, rangers, grangers and state legislators -the men who know their areas best. From them he has acquired a knowledge of grassroots U.S. such as few reporters have...
...never any doubt that Al Kaline would be a ball player. His grandfather was a bush-league catcher on the Eastern Shore; his old man and his uncles also wore the "tools of ignorance." They tried to turn Al into a pitcher. But in high school his speed afoot and his incredible batting eye earned him a slot where he belonged: in the outfield. Summers he played American Legion ball. His batting average wavered between .824 and .609. When the Tigers signed him in the summer of 1953, no one questioned their decision to pay him a $35,000 bonus...
...ministers, however, are considerably less popular. The King's domestic opposition, the left-wing Democratic Party of Jungle Exile Son Ngoc Thanh (TIME, Feb. 21). complained to the neutral Truce Commission recently that King Norodom was about to violate the Geneva agreements. King Norodom had a project afoot to disfranchise Viet Minh Communists in next April's general elections, despite Geneva's insistence that everyone gets a vote. The commission's Indians, Canadians, and Polish Communists backed up the Democrats, and cautioned King Norodom not to violate Geneva (which the Communists have already violated in half...