Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algiers 100,000 Gaullists poured into the streets to celebrate their triumph over Paris. There were searchlights making giant Vs for victory, flares shooting into the sky and bands playing. In the excitement, one man died of a heart attack, 40 fainted or were trampled under foot, and 100 children got lost. From the balcony of the Government General Building came incessant loudspeaker exhortations: "Let the torches through, please. . . . That's it . . . Bravo les torches...
...French fleet leaving Malta. But they let French papers and the national radio network carry the same story the same day. Newsmen also had their troubles with the jittery government. For calling President Coty "the great nothing of the Fourth Republic," the London Daily Herald's Michael Foot, onetime Labor M.P., was expelled from the country...
Driving the same Belond Special that won for Sam Hanks last year, Bryan tramped on his foot throttle and tried to pull away. At the halfway mark he was still being tailed by Veterans Tony Bettenhausen and Johnny Boyd. Coming up fast was Rookie Driver George Amick. Each of the cars was powered by a four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. The drivers' skills and the speed of their pit crews meant more than any mechanical difference...
...Bill Mazeroski benefits from an asset even more valuable than his own hard-muscled (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 lbs.) frame: the ambitions of a baseball-frustrated father. Lewis Mazeroski, whose own baseball hopes ended when a coal-mining accident forced the amputation of part of his right foot, began playing catch with his son in the stony backyards of Ohio coal towns just as soon as young Bill could walk...
...jets are only part of Qantas' plans. It also wants to break into the lucrative transcontinental U.S. market heretofore restricted to domestic carriers. With one foot in the door through its right to fly its own international passengers across the U.S., it has also asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for the right to carry other international passengers from coast to coast. The right to make such flights, known as cabotage, has been a major argument for years among air carriers, and Qantas' request is bitterly opposed by every U.S. line. If granted, it would open domestic markets...