Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Augusta to Colorado, and for 20 years alternated storekeeping and prospecting. He made his big strike at Leadville when he was 47; within a year he was a millionaire. To help celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor became the richest man in Colorado, and this attracted 20-year-old Baby Doe, who blew into Leadville in 1881, established herself as Tabor's mistress and persuaded him to divorce...
...truth. "For . . . there is in existentialism a shocking sensualism, an erotic realism, a tearful and throbbing meeting of skin against skin, which, so characteristically French, appreciates propinquity of heart and fingertip." At the same time existentialism contains "a sentiment of constantly living over cracking earth, or at the foot of live volcanos, or in a land where people fight two wars in every lifetime...
Nine days had passed since the Ford sedan carrying James Hixon Jr., 22, of Salt Lake City and his fiancée Jean Margetts of Sunnyvale, Calif, had disappeared. Then, at dusk, a searching airplane pilot spotted the wreckage at the foot of a 300-ft. embankment in Parley's Canyon, just off heavily traveled U.S. 40, in the Wasatch Mountains, east of Salt Lake. Highway patrolmen clambered down to remove the bodies. Hixon lay dead, 20-ft. from the car. Jean Margetts was pinned beneath the car and a log. As Superintendent Lyle Hyatt lifted...
...raised to 7 ft. ⅜ in. Dumas, a Negro like the other two qualifiers, poised himself, took eight carefully measured steps and took off. His foot caught the bar and dragged it into the sawdust. Dumas drew on his sweat clothes and strolled to one end of the stadium. It was late in the evening. He was the last competitor, and some 35,000 eyes were on him as he walked and thought for several minutes in a strange sort of solitude under the flaring floodlights. Then he came back, peeled off his sweat clothes and squinted...
...body leveled, Charley Dumas swung his right foot over the bar and then jackknifed his left safely past. His belly scraped the bar−ever so barely. Dumas could hear the roar from the crowd before his body hit the sawdust of the pit. He had broken through the great barrier...