Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes the Jefferson City Junior College auditorium rocked and rolled last week as 1,600 shouting, foot-stomping delegates to the Missouri State Democratic Convention chanted over and over again: "We want Stu! We want Stu!" At the microphone, long-legged U.S. Senator William Stuart Symington, 54, his handsome features and square shoulders set off by a trim blue suit, beamed as he waited to acknowledge the nomination as Missouri's favorite son. "This is one of the greatest honors that has ever come to me," said Symington into the waning din. "As long as I live, I shall...
...line. But from chipping distance to the pin, Beharrell was equal to anything the weather or the links demanded. He one-putted most greens. He never showed a blink of emotion. After he had lost four holes in a row, he came back later to sink a two-foot putt and win. Then he relaxed for an instant. He grabbed his cap and waved his putter aloft in his other hand. "Aye!" he shouted with relief...
Died. Al Simmons (real name: Aloysius Harry Szymanski), 53, member (since 1953) of Baseball's Hall of Fame, often sold batting great (lifetime average: .334) whose famed foot-in-the-bucket stance was the nemesis of Big League pitchers for most of his 21-season career (1924-44); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. As a Philadelphia outfielder in the heyday of Connie Mack's Athletics, Simmons hit over .300 for eleven straight seasons, copped the American League batting title...
...pictures of Indian life, the buffalo herds, the astonishing terrain, are among the best recorded. Though he never lost sight of his practical objectives, he never ceased to be exhilarated by the wild beauty of his surroundings. In the Rockies, as he was about to move forward on foot, he noted that "there were some fine asters in bloom." The scene before him was "a gigantic disorder of enormous masses, and a savage sublimity of naked rock, in wonderful contrast with innumerable green spots of a rich floral beauty shut up in their stern recesses...
...Orleans last week, another foe of segregation got a fiery reminder that not all Southerners are willing to wrestle with their prejudices. An eight-foot, gasoline-soaked wooden cross was ignited before the residence of Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, who has called segregation "morally wrong and sinful," allowed his diocesan newspaper to talk of excommunication for Catholics who block his policy of church and school integration. One organization of segregationist Catholic laymen is appealing to Rome after having been forced by the archbishop to disband...