Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside the Bamboo Curtain for the first time since the Chinese Communists forced Marxian enlightenment upon his Himalayan country five years ago. In journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...
...Navy in 1940. After four years in the Atlantic on minesweepers and destroyer escorts, White went to Washington to work for James Forrestal in smoothing the transition to a peace-time Navy. Discharged as a Commander in 1945, he remains a keen salt water sailor, piloting his fifty-foot German-built yawl "Blue Water" through the coves of Long Island Sound "as often as possible." As a weekend skipper, White has won several races, although he lost his mainsail the only time he entered the famed Bermuda regatta...
There's not so much to be done about Boston any more. But people still try. Louis M. Lyons writes that "Boston has probably more reform organizations per square foot than any other great city." But few people seem really to care. While sky highways have been built over much of the North End, and a parking lot will someday burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains...
...dawned murkily and Hubert struggled free of the tangled bedclothes, leaving a trail of sheets and blankets leading toward the john. Therein he groped for the drinking glass, but remembered that his roommate had dropped it the day before. He noticed blood pumping from a deep gash in his foot. He somehow got the shaving cream can backwards, and squirted his eye, dropped his pajama bottoms in surprise, lost his balance, and fell into the shower...
...Student Council last night approved what could become a major re-orientation of the House Elections and placed a paternal foot on the Combined Charities Committee, but otherwise firmly resisted suggestions from an estimated 55 students at a public Council meeting in the Lamont Forum Room...