Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perlmutter said that the trio had camped near the foot of the mountain on Saturday night, and started for the top on Sunday. They later became separated, and when Perlmutter and Snow reached a hut at the top of the mountain they were unable to locate Flint...
...press conference the President got off a warning to G.O.P. foot-draggers. In backing Republican candidates in 1958, he said, he would show a lot more "enthusiasm" for "people that stand with me" than for "those that stand against me." This was a big turnabout from the week before when he had said, in effect, that Old Guard Republicans could snipe at his programs and still be sure of the same kind of boost from him at election time as his loyal supporters...
...book provides the grisly fascination which clings to any dissection of rottenness. Fowlers End is a fictional section of London so far gone in vice, filth and despair that its inhabitants seem bent on denying that they are human. Hogarth would have shuddered at the thought of setting foot there. Nevertheless the book is a comedy, its gruesome humor capable of starting up belly laughs that guiltily stop in the throat...
...mile, $239 million Massachu-setts Turnpike was opened several weeks ago, after two years of construction. The superhighway has two roads of three lanes each, separated by an 18-foot center strip. It ends at the New York State line, connecting with N.Y. Route 22, for Albany at West Stockbridge...
...jokes, but as Sturges tells them they get a fresh and hearty laugh-especially when the director puts his best foot forward and doesn't put all his weight on the arch...