Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general officer [merely] on the basis of a good attendance record." But Senator Smith was far from satisfied. As she saw it, Stewart's promotion was clearly a case of rewarding not the colonel but the glamorous male lead in Strategic Air Command. She grimly put her foot down, and out of senatorial courtesy the Senate committee passed over Colonel James Stewart, U.S.A.F.R. Vacationing in Nevada after a two-week active-duty tour in July with a B-52 outfit in Limestone, Me., Pilot Stewart landed smoothly. Said he: "I was very honored to receive the nomination by President...
...Soprano Patrice Munsel will become the first star on the Metropolitan Opera roster to have her own TV series, and both bouncy Guy Mitchell and bland Pat Boone will head up their own variety shows. Warner is busy grinding out reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne, and another called Maverick (with new Cowboy James Garner) to oppose the Allen-Sullivan powerhouse Sunday nights. Reliable old Character Actor Walter Brennan stars in a folksy situation comedy called The Real McCoys, and OSS will chronicle the World War II cloak-and-dagger exploits...
...center of the stage of the ancient theater of Herodes Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis, a frail old lady stood one night last week nodding to the applause of cabinet ministers, diplomats and Athenian intellectuals. The mayor of Athens had just proclaimed Miss Edith Hamilton of Washington, D.C. an honorary citizen, and for an instant it seemed as if she might break down. Instead, Edith Hamilton, just four days short of 90, walked up to a microphone and in a firm voice declared: "I am an Athenian citizen! I am an Athenian citizen! This is the proudest moment...
...theatre--in order to get to know the people who will eventually make decisions on scripts. On Friday say, 'I'll fix that for you over the weekend,' then come back with it done on Monday. The Big Boss thinks you're clever and you have a foot-hold on the ladder...
...slight physical deformity made him incapable of sexual intercourse; his only real vice was gluttony, his favorite daytime amusement mixing plaster with the palace workmen. When his gay, pretty bride stepped from her coach and gave him an airy kiss, the 15-year-old "booby" only shifted gawkily from foot to foot; after the nuptials, two days later, he seemed mainly interested in the huge wedding feast. "Don't overload your stomach tonight," warned the old King. "Why not?" replied the Dauphin. "I always sleep better after a good supper...