Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two years of selling books as a traveling salesman, Poujade leased a twelve-foot shop on Saint-Céré's main street and opened a book and stationery store. While Pierre's mother minded their four children, Yvette tended shop and Poujade peddled books on his route in an ancient Renault. He got a taxi license, drove summer tourists on sightseeing trips, conducted guided tours for summer visitors. As a Gaullist, he was elected to the town's 24-man municipal council...
Sammy learned to gauge his customers. The late Joe McAuliffe, then covering politics for the Post-Dispatch and later managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once invaded Sam's bedroom for an urgent loan. "My pants were on the foot of the old brass bed." Bronstein recalls. "I told Joe to help himself to whatever he needed. He was a great newspaperman, and I didn't have to ever worry about an honest count from...
...Natural (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952), there was the mystical intimation that major-leaguers might even have souls. In Bang the Drum Slowly, Novelist Mark (The Southpaw) Harris modestly stays closer to the bag. Look, he says, they are human, and their hearts can hurt as much as a spiked foot...
Canty, a Leverett House junior, was high scorer in his freshman year. The six-foot-three center played two seasons on the Arlington High School basketball team before coming to Harvard. At Arlington, he set a school record for high scoring, and was named both seasons to his league's all-star team...
...Haven, March 10--Yale's strategy of centering its second-half attack around sophomore star Johnny Lee paid rich dividends tonight. The 6 foot 3 inch redhead scored 41 points, 30 in that period to lead the Eli five to a convincing 99 to 73 victory over the varsity here...