Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never, at any time in my life, said anything remotely resembling the quote attributed to me. My admiration for Mr. Harrison is unbounded, but as for being the only actor from whom I could learn comedy, I like to think I learn something every time I set foot in a theater...
...darkest Africa, where the British introduced soccer along with other Anglo-Saxon blessings, one-shoed King Freddie of Buganda, leading a clutch of his chiefs, kicked off with his bare foot against a team of Britons calling themselves the Abagurusi (Senile Ones). Cantabrigian Freddie, 31, whose popularity forced...
...these and other reasons, Niarchos is distrusted by oldtime shipowners, sneered at as an "uptown boy," i.e., a landlubber who doesn't know his fantail from a fo'c'sle. Though he seldom sets foot aboard a tanker, Niarchos retorts angrily that he is far more concerned with his fleet than his fortune...
...almost a matter of course for martyrs. Blessed Richard Herst, an English farmer, was hanged for murder in 1628 when an officer arresting him (for refusing to attend Church of England services) fell down, broke his leg and died of gangrene. "He spent some time in prayer at the foot of the scaffold and then, seeing that the hangman was fumbling over fixing the rope, called up to him, 'Tom, I think I must come up and help thee...
...attempt to swallow a man whole, but nips out steak-sized chunks. For some reason, perhaps the sharpness of the teeth, a victim scarcely feels the bite. A naval officer who spent twelve hours in the waters off Guadalcanal remembered feeling "a scratching, tickling sensation" in his left foot. "Slightly startled, I held it up. It was gushing blood. I peered into the water. Not ten feet away was the glistening, brown back of a great fish." The shark returned. When the officer kicked and thrashed, it sometimes veered away. On other passes it took a piece of the officer...