Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong aversion to violence in all its forms. The school bully walloped him; Martin did not fight back. His younger brother flailed away at him; Martin stood and took it. A white woman in a store slapped him, crying, "You're the nigger who stepped on my foot." Martin said nothing. Cowardice? If so, it would come as a surprise to Montgomery, where Martin Luther King has unflinchingly faced the possibility of violent death for months...
Maybe they learn it jaywalking across traffic, or in the subway, where a fleet foot and a sharp elbow mean a rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...
Internal Tick. Skinny Arnie Sowell, the light-foot Pitt Negro with elastic legs, was back in his element, his disappointing summer outdoors and his heartbreaking failure at Melbourne now behind him. He hardly wasted a glance on last year's winner, halfback-sized Tom Courtney of Fordham. On the broad lanes and long straightaways of outdoor tracks, where Courtney could get his weight rolling, things had been different. Sowell had been second best. In the Garden Arnie was at home...
...places in the 600 are injured, as is Dave Gately, the leading broad jumper. Both pole vaulters, Barrett Churchill and Barnes Keller are ailing, but both will complete. Dick will not run in the two-mile relay, and hurdler Joel Cohen is still hampered by his bad foot...
Lebensraum. To a great extent that's what the new House will mean. Fewer strained feelings per square foot and an escape from the barbarism of bunk beds...