Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richter scale, just one-thousandth as strong as the big 1906 disaster. Property damage-broken windows, cracked walls, crumbled brickwork -reached into the millions of dollars. But there were no deaths, and no really serious injuries (a woman dropped a coffeepot on her toe; a man broke his foot running downstairs at City Hall). There was some hysteria as the city went through a whole series of shocks (including the minor aftershocks), but San Franciscans-who cherish their earthquakes as they do their cable cars-generally took the day in stride. Perhaps the most characteristic act was that...
...foot, 5 inch Law student's tremendous reach gave him almost complete control of the court, and his widely varied game, combining great power with deft touch, kept Place from ever getting set. The Crimson player contested every point, however, and the match was much closer than the score indicated...
...next event, Jim Doty, a consistent 45-foot shotputter, went wild and threw 48 feet, 41/2 inches for another Crimson win. In the third field event, the broad jump, Henry Wente won with a leap of 22 feet, 2 inches. He had never placed before...
Landau is another. Not only did he prove the mainstay in the dash, but he also proved outstanding in the hurdles, a previously foreign and abhorrent event, when ace Joel Cohen reinjured his foot. The neophyte hurdler actually broke the indoor record in the Yale meet...
...table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then he stood by, relaxed, while an assistant cut deeper. To the surgical nurse standing on a low stool at the foot of the operating table, surrounded by trays of sterile instruments, went a running fire of orders...