Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport into the city. From villages and country valleys and the city itself had come more than a million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks (supplied by the government and private businesses), on bicycles, and on foot, they came in one deafening torrent-ragged peasants, neat little babus (civil servants), fierce-looking Sikhs, lovely sari-clad women-jamming through the streets, shouting, cheering...
...voice went unheard in the thunderous clamor, and Nehru characteristically put his chin in his hand and gazed stoically ahead. Downtown, the crowds were even stormier. WELCOME PRINCE OF PEACE, read a sign in Connaught Circus. Flowers by the pound flew at Ike until he was standing foot-deep in them, and the panting Secret Service men who had already been mauled by the mobs, began fielding the blossoms until they were exhausted. "Do you believe we would have come 40 miles to see him if he were not a god?" asked one old woman indignantly. "Did he not send...
...enosis (union with Greece) and left Britain sovereign over two bases on the island's south coast. One such dissident, an elderly, respected Nicosia lawyer named John Clerides, 73, presented his candidacy against Makarios. The situation was made to order for Cyprus' Communists. When Governor Sir Hugh Foot ended the four-year state of emergency last month, they emerged from underground, led by Ezekias ("Pappy") Papaioannou, 51, a Spanish Civil War veteran. Around him were Prague and Moscow-trained party activists, who already control the island's dock and farm unions. They volunteered their support of Right...
...Seesaw, Anne was only too anxious to try. She was going East for a sister's wedding anyway; she read the play and decided that she would impress Coe, not by acting, but by being Gittel. "I made sure he found me with one shoe off, scratching my foot," she recalls. "And when I got inside his office, the first thing I said was, 'Where's the John?' It was just the sort of thing Gittel would have said. I didn't have to go, really, but I went. He asked me to come back...
Capitalizing on a slight Crimson letdown, the Colby hockey team scored two key goals in the second period and went on to win Saturday's game, 4 to 2. Harvard's point came on a blue-line shot by Mike Graney and a 15-foot backhand by wing Stew Forbes...