Word: flooringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President decided to take to TV to demand reform of labor inequities-"a national disgrace," and 2) Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, Chairman of the Rules Committee, stalled the mild Elliott bill just long enough so that the President could make his speech, and public reaction could pile up before floor debate begins this week...
...stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly. Finally a car slowed ("Stop," a small boy cried to his father, "there's a jet pilot standing in the road!"), took him to a country store, where he collapsed on the floor while waiting for an ambulance to carry him to a hospital in Ahoskie...
...massive-shouldered Negro looked like just another pug until he stung his man with a left to the belly in the third round. Then Sonny Liston came alive. A left hook to the head made big Nino Valdes drop his gloves; a right cross dumped him on the floor, his eyes glazed. It was Liston's 18th victory in a row, and his 25th in 26 pro fights...
...lawns of the Champs Elysées, the 14-year-old played at prisoner's base and puppy love with perky Marie de Benardaky (a model of Gilberte in Remembrance). When the affair ended, Proust thought of suicide by jumping from his family's second-floor apartment...
...steel-barred carette, one of the portable, horse-drawn cells used for transporting political prisoners to Siberia. He had been stripped to his drawers and examined by doctors before being locked up. but he produced a small, coiled-spring saw and a can opener to cut through the zinc floor of his cage; they were passed to him, mouth to mouth, when his wife kissed him in tearful "farewell" before the carette was hidden in the corner of the prison yard. Doctors who examined him later did not find the "gaffs." An old carny hand had taught Houdini the trick...