Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since Lenin's, and walked behind the caisson with tears in his eyes. As boss of Leningrad before and during World War II, Zhdanov had placed a clique of up-and-coming young administrators in crucial posts. Scarcely had his body been lowered into a grave at the foot of the Kremlin wall when his chief rival, pudgy Georgy Malenkov, joined with Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria in persuading Stalin to liquidate the "Leningrad clique" and replace it with a Malenkov clique...
...week's end Sailor Boston had changed his mind, decided that he will try again. "I just need someone to accompany me and a 40-foot boat," he said jauntily. "Then we'd make it for sure. I still have great affection...
Ziolkowski quickly showed that he had the energy to go with his size and ambition. Ax on shoulder, he went into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse...
...Voters. On the island of Sardinia, politicians, protesting "foul" electioneering in a vote on the island, accused their rivals of giving out right-foot shoes with a promise of matching left ones 'in case of victory at the polls...
There's not much to be done about Boston anymore. But people still try. Louis M. Lyons writes that "Boston has probably had more reform organizations per square foot than any other great city." But few people seem to care. While sky highways are built over much of the North End, and a parking lot will some day burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains, and the building looks...