Word: feets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Generally, election winners were an eclectic group for whom age, sex or race seemed to be no barrier. Denying that she was a "little old lady in tennis shoes," retired Librarian Isabelle Cannon, 73, proved to be fast on her feet as she upset Jyles Coggins, 56, mayor of Raleigh, N.C. "How can you debate with someone who is old enough to be your mother?" complained Coggins. Said Cannon, who was backed by groups in favor of controlled growth for the city: "Raleigh is ready for a fresh new face...
After the wild applause there was sudden silence: a pause of anticipation, and die volk were not disappointed. Within a minute the Prime Minister had gained the first murmurs of acclaim; within five minutes he had brought the crowd to its feet. When he wanted to drive home a point, it was not a jab but a double uppercut as he thrust both fists in the air. And when he wanted the world to listen?as he did last week?John Vorster switched from Afrikaans to deliberate and slightly accented English...
...vanguard of public hedonism, has imposed a temporary moratorium on new sex movie theaters, pornographic bookstores and massage parlors. Under the revised zoning rules, which were modeled on a Detroit ordinance that has been copied in a number of other cities, no such business may open within 1,000 feet of a similar business or within 500 feet of a residential area, school, church or park...
...Dartmouth's Brownridge (one goal, two assists) jammed a Mark Culhane power play rebound by Hynes to put the visitors ahead 3-1. 1:40 later Harvard's John Garrity took a pass from captain Cook (two assists), wheeled; to his backhand, and beat the Dartmouth netminder from eight feet...
With this soon-to-be-published study, Harvard Sociology professor Orlando Patterson jumps into the ethnicity fray with both feet forward. To the unmasking of the neo-conservatism of the new ethnicity spokesmen he adds a trenchant and remarkably comprehensive critique of the psychological and sociological sources of the appeal to ethnicity, and more important, shows how this appeal has traditionally translated into reactionary and implicitly fascistic social and political action...