Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likelihood of a yes from all six nations, including France, has suddenly bestirred the British, who have long kept one tentative foot in and one determined foot out of the Continent. To avoid Britain's being frozen out completely, Harold Macmillan, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer last fall, put forth a counterscheme, broader but less radical than the Common Market. He proposed the creation of a Free Trade Area in Europe, to take in not just the Common Market Six, but twelve other European nations besides. The Six, who have all had previous bitter experience with British...
Beaming with her own brand of scrubbed-face beauty. Actress Ingrid Bergman, a peaches-and-cream 40, glided off a plane from Paris, where she is starring in a French version of Tea and Sympathy. At New York City's International Airport, she set foot on U.S. soil for the first time in more than seven scandal-haunted years. Ingrid's return was as brief (36 hours) as it was triumphant; she had come to pick up the New York Film Critics' "best actress" award for her excellent performance in the title role of Anastasia (TIME...
...Soft! What Truck ... In Madison, Wis., arrested for leaving the scene of an accident after his truck tore off a 3½-ton marquee and smashed an eight-foot window at the Cardinal Hotel, Henry D. Eskridge alibied: "Honest to gosh, I didn't know I hit anything...
...with His Head. Drawn up the gaping skidway by steel cables thrumming on giant steam-driven winches, the whale reached the broad afterdeck. A gang of workmen, wielding long-handled flensing knives, sliced off the thick blubber in foot-wide strips. The winches whined again and dragged the naked, bloody carcass 50 ft. farther along the slimy, slippery, half-iced deck to stage two. Here another flensing gang sliced off the meat. A neat, well-directed blow, as from an executioner's ax, severed the backbone at the neck, and the gigantic head (20 ft. long in an average...
...Edward was a Shropshire lad, the son of a gardener, and he knew his place. At Merryns, the stately home of Lord and Lady Cedely, he shed a footman's livery and became Edward, the beloved family retainer ("Six foot of superb young animal. If he was a horse, I'd give three hundred guineas for him," said his lordship). He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern...