Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seattle it was soon decided that the only way to set up a successful program -backed by newspapers, radio and TV-was to make it free. To foot the bills the city's United Good Neighbors' Polio Trust Fund donated $185,000, the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis gave $30,000, and the county public health department agreed to pay for all vaccine used for persons under 20. Hoping to needle some 300,000 people in two weeks, the King County (Seattle) Medical Society rounded up 1,000 of its 1,200 members, plus...
...strongly appealing style. She makes her entrance chanting Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing in a slightly husky, twangy voice. After the applause dies down, she may take off her glasses, pick up a battered cymbal and start flailing it with a wire brush while she launches into a foot-stomping, open-throated jazz version of Lazy River...
...ants do not destroy any specific crop. Their way of life is to tunnel underground, excavating a nest of interlaced chambers and building a solid mound about a foot high. Their food is juices sucked from plant roots and stems, seeds, tender shoots, and any insects or animals that they can kill. They go for fledgling birds, and even kill them in their eggs before they have quite hatched. Most conspicuous damage is done to vegetables...
...request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...
Outside of these, however, little is certain. In the weight, for instance, if Pete Harpel can get off a good throw (he has fouled some 60-foot throws in practice) he could win. Or he could place no higher than fourth. If shotputter Jim Doty can get off a toss similar to his winning throw in the Army meet, he, too, could pick up valuable points...