Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss of the Treasury ("the youngest since Pitt"), and husband of the American beauty, Jennie Jerome. He maddened old Queen Victoria with his pugnacity and determination. "The youngest member of the Cabinet must not be allowed to dictate to the others," she barked. "Lord Salisbury must really put his foot down." Eventually, Prime Minister Salisbury put it down hard-and Lord Randolph flashed into obscurity like "Lucifer . . . fallen from among the stars...
Four men sailed for the Hawaiian Islands, planning to go to Eniwetok in protest against continued testing of nuclear bombs. They left San Pedro, California, on February 10, in a thirty-foot ketch. Albert Bigelow '29 was captain of the ship; the crew contained another alumnus, William R. Huntington '28, who has a daughter at Radcliffe...
...last of the fifth, B.U. pitcher Bill McCormick got his team's first run by belting a 375-foot homer onto the railroad tracks beyond the left field fence. This, it was recalled, is where Bob Elliott used to hit them...
...President Clark Hungerford-"who brought the Southern from doldrums to dividends," father of Novelist Frank Collan (Tower in the West) Norris; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A lifetime railroader who began his career in his teens, Norris ceaselessly patrolled the Southern in his office car, knew every foot of the road's 8,000 miles of track, once walked away from a wreck and waited until that evening to have a broken collarbone set with no other painkiller than a shot of whisky. There are only two things a man will turn his head for, said "Uncle...
...Gordon ran away from the field to win the 440 in 0:52.2, while French Anderson, despite a sore foot, nosed out Cornell's Dave Cadiz for second. Sandy Dodge, running all out for the first time this spring, finished second in the 220 and a close third in the 100, while Lee Barnes took third for the varsity...