Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amid foot stamping, cheers and a few muted boos, the House of Representatives last week approved the Eisenhower Middle East doctrine by 355 votes to 61 (35 Democrats, 26 Republicans'). "House Joint Resolution 117 simply means," accurately explained Ohio's Republican Frances Bolton during the debate, "that we will help the people of the general area of the Middle East stop Communist invasion, if requested, and will help them help themselves economically, also if requested.'' And although she was highly mindful of the duty of Congress to clarify and inquire and judge, "I am just...
Under the Stalinists, Roman Catholic schoolchildren in Poland were harassed by the state when they chose to go to religion classes. Now the shoe appears to be on the other foot. Newspapers all over Poland are carrying complaints of Communists that their children are being teased, ostracized, and sometimes beaten up for not attending religious instruction...
...brain injury at his birth. The result is akin to cerebral palsy, though the child has no tremor. Abnormal nerve impulses to muscles in the right leg have shortened the heel cord (Achilles' tendon); its shortness forces the prince to walk on the toes and ball of the foot...
...Foot on the Pedal. Working seven days a week, against local skepticism so profound that for a long while grocers refused credit to his own family, Frank Rackley slowly amassed community support that helped swing a $1,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan in 1950. With the loan for working capital, Rackley was in business. He became one of the youngest steel presidents in the industry. With heavy Korean-war orders to help, Jessop Steel netted $400,000 in 1951, $1,800,000 in 1952. Though earnings fell to $25,000 in 1954, Jessop came back handily through the rest...
...biggest sports upsets in recent years caught up with a high-riding varsity squash team at Annapolis on Saturday. Navy completely dominated the heavily-favored Crimson, administering a resounding 8-1 shellacking, before a cheering, foot-stamping capacity crowd...