Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are two kinds of millionaires," Mr. De used to say. "The silver-spoon boys and the rabbit's-foot boys." He classed himself with the rabbit-footers...
...among many Texans who stopped last week to recall the vision of the small, strong man with blue eyes, there was the knowledge that there were not two, but three kinds of Texas millionaires: silver spoon, rabbit's foot...
...painful weeks between painting, Hopper's self-enforced, involuntary leisure consists largely of reading, movies (he liked Marty), wandering the streets on foot, alone and lonely as a cloud, or touring the highways with his wife. Their entertaining is confined largely to an occasional tea with baba au rhum. But one recent visitor was asked to lunch, and given hamburgers cooked over the flames of the coal stove. "I suppose I should have used the gas range," Mrs. Hopper chirped, "but it just makes a lot of grease for Eddie to clean up." For a cookbook giving the favorite...
...playing at U.S.C.," says Gifford, "a pass play might call for me to run ten yards downfield, then cut for the sideline. The pros are more subtle [if any 200-lb. giant moving at top speed is ever subtle]. Now I sprint until the defense man crosses his right foot over his left and turns his back on the sideline. Then...
...other hand, the substitute forwards were unimpressive, and 6-8 Grif McClellan was frequently outjumped by men a foot shorter...