Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After John Simourian had lined a lead-off single to left to open the home ninth, clean-up hitter Bob Hastings, tied for the team lead in runs batted in, came to the plate. Hastings had previously flied to deep center in the first, and blasted a 400-foot homer over the center fielder's head in the sixth. Hastings, though, was ordered to bunt, and successfully sacrificed Simourian to third...
...morning had tried to warm Hiss's reception by decking the campus with some 100 papier-mâché pumpkins containing photographs of a Woodstock typewriter and microfilm, reminiscent of the pumpkin papers and other evidence that convicted him. Dawn also unveiled three signs protesting "Traitor" in foot-high red letters. But ex-State Department Employee Hiss, 51, appearing before about 200 students and 50 newsmen, spoke with dry pedantry on "The Meaning of Geneva," dulled his 25-minute discourse further with many a soporific quotation. His main, unoriginal point: the suicidal nature of modern nuclear warfare makes...
...motor scooters, and in terms of sacraments and good works, the average priest's efficiency has climbed to about 3,000% over that of his road-trudging 19th century predecessor. Another straw in this high wind is the decline of the more introverted Benedictines and foot-slogging Franciscans in favor of the fast-moving Jesuits, whose high-octane practicality thrives on the motor-scooter age. Pope Pius XII has been a longtime friend of automotion; last fall he called for "greater and greater speed to the glory of God" (TIME, Oct. 17), and last week he delighted a delegation...
...General De Gaulle his first meal in liberated Paris. In 1945, after it had stalled the Germans' best efforts to turn it into an officers' club, the Café de la Paix was about to be commandeered for U.S. officers when a worldly U.S. colonel put his foot down. "Requisition the Café de la Paix?" he asked. "Why not requisition Notre Dame...
...reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune to India's heat and insects, is undeniably tough, but so is its meat. A few massive, pale brown Charollaise have been imported from France via Mexico. But since 1937 they have been barred by foot-and-mouth disease laws, and the U.S. herd numbers only...