Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening stroll when four masked men stepped from behind a tree, and one, brandishing a revolver, said: "E.O.K.A. Hold up your hands. We are not going to kill you." Cremer replied: "Well, it doesn't much matter if you do, at my age." They bound him hand and foot and drove off with him. Shortly thereafter, E.O.K.A. circulated a pamphlet that warned: if the three condemned Cypriots hang, Cremer will...
...special about the husky-voiced man at the refreshment booth just inside the grandstand. "Kids, kids, kids!'' he would cry. "Big kids, little kids, bring your dimes and nickels! Get your ice cream here!" He pushed the hot dogs ("See how long they are!-30? to the foot, 90? to the yard!"), kept up a steady stream of jingles ("Local bread, pound of meat,/And all the mustard you can eat"), in every way seemed to be just one more concessionaire. But to carnival folk, Witold Krassowski, 35, is now known as "The Professor." A sociologist who teaches...
...police chief: "You are creating a political demonstration by waving. Kindly desist." At fabled Trebizond, where Xenophon's weary Ten Thousand finally reached the sea, the police tried to whisk Gulek from the dock to party headquarters in a car. When he insisted on making the trip by foot, they used clubs and jeeps to scatter the crowds that gathered to catch sight of him. At a later stop, a provincial subgovernor ruled that it would constitute a political meeting if a cafe proprietor pushed a few tables together for Gulek's party. Still another ruling: anything Gulek...
...time the combo cut loose from the orchestra in the second dialogue, the audience was bouncing, the orchestra was grinning and one lady violinist was tapping out the syncopated beat with her foot. Some critics felt that the contrast between the styles of the orchestra and the combo was too great and that Composer Brubeck had written not a dialogue but a series of intersecting monologues...
...foot's on the throttle and it's made of lead But I'm a fast-riding Daddy with a real cool head...