Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aboard the Union Pacific's Denver-bound City of St. Louis, stopped in deep Kansas drifts, 213 passengers and crewmen huddled for two days, ripped down the train's drapes and curtains to keep warm. In Tascosa, Texas, 16-year-old Chester Simpson stubbornly set out on foot to keep a date with his girl 30 miles away in Amarillo, staggered to within four miles of the city's outskirts in the black night, died on a barbed-wire fence...
Siler won the shot put with a 47 foot 5.5 inch heave and placed second in the discus with a throw of 150 feet 5 inches, as Oxford took nine of the 13 events for a 73-53 point victory...
Harding had scarcely put foot to ground before he was making his points plain. The "terrorists" had suffered "heavy losses," which had "obviously" affected their morale, he told airport reporters. Said Harding dourly: "Take note of the fact the word used is suspend, not cease, operations. I think you should also want to have regard, when you consider any truce offer, to the status and reputation of the man who made...
...nine months ago Captain Moureau disappeared. But the desert has its verbal grapevine, and over this came, piece by piece, news of Captain Moureau's fate: emasculated, both arms broken, he was, when last seen alive, on exhibition in an animal's cage, chained hand and foot, dressed in the travesty of a French uniform, with an obscene inscription pinned to his back...
...gloom of his musty church in London's Camberwell section, he conducts services for his working-class parishioners in language hallowed by generations of solemn Anglican usage. But when he sits down at his creaky upright parlor piano, he is likely to let himself go in the foot-stomping rhythms of the South Side jukeboxes. Last week he held a little party at the vicarage to display an unusual wedding of his two talents: a Mass set to popular rhythms and already known in the U.S. as the "Jazz Mass...