Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this spirit last week Sir Hugh Foot set about introducing Britain's intricate new plan to give limited self-government to Cyprus (TIME, June 23). Tribulation was what he expected. After the previous week's bloodshed between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, the British had rushed additional troops to Cyprus, boosting the security force to 37,000 men for an area smaller than Los Angeles County. They postponed the scheduled public announcement of the plan for 48 hours to give the NATO Council a chance to calm the growing bitterness between NATO Partners Greece and Turkey...
...play a round of big-league croquet against such guests as Averell Harriman, the Marx brothers, William Randolph Hearst Jr. or Swope's late elder brother Gerard, onetime president and board chairman of General Electric. On the croquet court Swope was insufferable: "Now you put your little foot on your ball and drive the other buckety-buckety off into the orchard. Perfect...
...harvester worked (probably not well), and few other classical authors even mentioned it. No contemporary drawing of it was known, and there was a fair possibility that it might have been only as real as some other items in Pliny, such as people in India who have only one foot and sometimes use it as a parasol.* But last week an ancient carving was proving that the Gallic harvester really existed, just about as Pliny described...
...grain of truth in this story may be the tribesmen in the southern Sudan and elsewhere who still stand on one foot with the other foot held flat against the shin...
Into the sun parlor of Atlanta's Emory University Hospital hobbled a solidly built man, taking some of the weight off his artificial left foot with a cane. Doctors, nurses and other well-wishers burst into applause as he completed the ten-yard walk from his room. Charles C. Kilpatrick, 42, warned with a grin: "Not too loud or you'll knock me over." Unaided, he eased himself into a chair, propped his feet on another. Charlie Kilpatrick was going home to his wife and teenage son, after three years and four months in the hospital...