Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nerve center for the Summer School's whole extra-curricular program is Grays Hall 1-2, near the southwestern corner of the Yard. From these rooms some 700 messages each day are carried by foot to dormitory rooms throughout the Yard; in these rooms, attractively outfitted with modern furniture, including television sets, students may receive guests from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week; and at desks in these rooms sit Mrs. Clouser and Miss Jaeger, who have all sorts of information about such things as nearby beaches, weekend carpools, and laundry service (basement, middle entry of Grays...
...gamble failed because Andrews had to waste time bluffing and cajoling his way past a discouraging amount of southbound traffic on the single-track line, and especially because the stubborn Confederate conductor of the captured train pursued him so closely on foot, handcar, switching engine and reversed locomotive that there was never time to do a thorough job of sabotage. Captured only ten miles from Chattanooga, Andrews and seven of his men were hanged, and the rest thrown into prison. All of the raiders were awarded the first Congressional Medals of Honor in U.S. history...
...movement started, Rojas marshaled army, navy and air force men in Bogotá's broad Plaza Bolivar on the third anniversary of his seizure of power. Ranged on a platform at the foot of the statue of Liberator Simón Bolivar were a tall crucifix and eight urns containing the ashes of Colombian soldiers who fought in the Korean war and in the country's own backlands guerrilla war. Rojas then read off a solemn oath, swearing the servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination...
...acrobats, like an avalanche of oranges, come tumbling at the camera, with jugglers and parti-colored harlequins who set the screen to flailing like a crazy quilt in a squall. Enter the mime again, this time with bells on his ankles, wrists and cap, to do a little foot-about that is charmingly reminiscent of the lady in the nursery rhyme who has music wherever she goes, and then a gay bacchanal as the villagers join...
...typical "old grad" of American folklore, with his hip flask in the fall, his straw hat and banner in the spring, and his instantaneous reversion to puerility any time that he sets foot back on the campus, has disappeared. He has gone the way of maid service in the Harvard Houses...