Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere in the auditorium there was a wolf howl. Then down the aisles, feet thumping the wooden floor, bounded five men. They dashed past rows of seated spectators, crossed the ten feet between front row and stage and jumped the four-foot parapet. One swung on Cole and sent him reeling onto the piano bench, which split under...
Brass Knuckles. Police had been tipped that a demonstration was coming, but they thought the demonstrators would use steps at the ends of the stage. Temporarily caught off base, the cops rushed in from the wings. One attacker, twisting Cole's foot, was wrestled until he let go; another swung on one of the cops and got a night stick across the head. Then eight cops armlocked the five out of the hall while Ted Heath's 18-piece British orchestra valiantly played America (also the tune of God Save the Queen) as order was restored. In jail...
From outside came the sound of a scuffled foot. The door burst in with a crash; the lights went out. It was the fedayeen (self-sacrificers), members of specially trained Arab assassin squads, who had crept north from the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. Submachine guns thundered in the room, and ten-year-olds went down in windrows. Three boys and a teacher died almost instantly; three others fell badly wounded. Others jumped out of windows, took shelter in a ditch. The killers fled. It was minutes before a teacher broke open the lock on the school telephone and called police...
Still, all Venturi had to shoot was another 40 on the final nine. But at length, pressure told: Venturi bogied the 10th-then the 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th. On the 17th he did it again. On the 18th only a 20-foot putt for a birdie could save him -and he missed by a foot. Texan Jack Burke, the fast-finishing professional, was master of the Masters. The crack shot who had qualified for the National Open at 16 had finally won a major tournament...
...Look into Gas." After his year with Frankfurter, Graham saw the New Deal fading into the defense effort. He followed, landing with one foot in the Lend-Lease Administration and the other in the Office for Emergency Management. As an ''expediter,'' Graham bowled through bottlenecks and red tape with highhanded ease, won kudos for his role in boosting high octane gas output and lending $8 billion in V-Loans to get defense plants humming. When he lacked the right to check on lagging gasoline procurement, he had OEM's Chief Wayne Coy put a slip...