Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foot-Washing Convert. Not even the uproarious Arkansas political meetings of the day were larks for John McClellan. His political favorite was Governor Jeff Davis,† an imposing figure in a Prince Albert coat of Confederate grey, whose platform was simple: "I am a hard-shell Baptist in religion. I believe in foot-washing, saving your seed potatoes and paying your honest debts." Invective .ran high in Arkansas politics, and little John McClellan had no way of telling the campaign flourish from the mortal insult. He took everything with deadly seriousness, spent sleepless nights after his heroes were attacked, blazingly...
...from Benny's shaft and parallel to it. A power shovel clanked in to speed the digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling walls every foot of the way. At 11 p.m., Benny's hand quivered in the light of a flashlamp trained down the well. It was his last movement. Dried out by the hissing oxygen, fine salt sand drifted softly over the child's head...
Another delicate sign to Vaticanists: before Wyszynski, having kissed the Pope's foot, could complete the customary obeisance of kissing his knee and hand, the Pope raised him from the floor and warmly embraced...
...allowances for himself and his family, aged El Amin played his part to perfection. He was regal and dignified at hand-kissing ceremonies, built fancy palaces and went roaring through town in a royal limousine with a screaming siren (reports have it that El Amin Bey had a foot pedal in the back of his car with which he himself could sound the siren). Most important, El Amin kept himself out of political mischief by spending his days tinkering with old clocks and watches and later, when his hobbies turned more modern, with an expensive X-ray machine...
...crates. Weird ceramics stand in disheveled confusion on the floor. The rest of the space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme or be incorporated into a new sculpture - a hollow elephant's foot filled with pebbles, a bird cage containing two parakeets, an African drum, faded flowers, a life-sized wooden crocodile, a pile of hats ranging from Chinese coolie to carnival papier-mache. "There are vitamins even in garbage," Picasso insists...