Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with galley, six bunks, a bathroom with shower, and a private compartment for Budweiser's August Anheuser Busch Jr. In the individual competitions were all bowling's big names and, to TV fans, familiar faces. Chief among them was Lou Campi, Dumont, N.J. contractor whose awkward, wrong-foot bowling style has made him the Lucille Ball of TV bowling, recently won him $6,000 and two Fords in a single TV tournament. In another, an East-West TV tournament, he has been rolling up winnings for twelve weeks; if he bowls a perfect game before the cameras...
Andante con Moto. After that, Poetess Moore really began producing. Samples: "Mongoose Civique, Thunder Crester, Dearborn Diamante, Magigravure, Pastelogram, Regina-rex, Taper Racer, Varsity Stroke, Astranaut, Chaparral, Tir à l'arc (bull's-eye), Triskelion (three legs running), Pluma Piluma (hairfine, feather-foot), Andante con Moto (description of a good motor?)." Wrote she on Dec. 8, 1955. "May I submit UTOPIAN TURTLE-TOP? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it." Wired back Wallace happily on Dec. 23 (not forgetting to send two dozen roses): "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO OUR FAVORITE TURTLETOPPER...
...raising inside air pressure slightly with an electric blower. Bird says that sunshine makes the water comfortably warm in fall and spring, but recommends a water heater in northern climates in midwinter. Estimated cost of cover, which is stored away in summer, is less than $1.50 per square foot of area enclosed...
...extraordinary example of his tenacity. Kept dangling by Elodie Hogan, a Catholic girl from California whom he had met in London, Belloc followed her home. He traveled steerage to New York, then "gambled his way across the plains." When his luck and money gave out, he continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman." Nor could Belloc overcome Elodie's resistance (she wanted to be a nun) until five years of relentless courtship-by mail -persuaded her at last...
This was true: Belloc studied his battlefields on foot, marching as the armies had marched, waking and sleeping as they had done. His great purple passages describing the storm or sunshine that had attended great events were not Bellocian inventions. Weather and walking were his passions, and it is no accident that they are at the heart of two of his most popular books, The Path to Rome and The Four...