Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foot doctors began to be called chiropodists in the 18th century - just why is not certain.* Down the years they have winced as though somebody had stepped on their corns when patients mispronounced the first syllable "sheer" or confused them with chiropractors. The bookish among them were bothered, too, to find that H. W. Fowler in his Modern English Usage waspishly called the word chiropodist "a barbarism and a genteelism," added that the normal word for such a practitioner should be "corn-cutter...
Last week the National Association of Chiropodists changed its name to American Podiatry Association, hoped that victims of corns, calluses and ingrown toenails would begin calling the nation's 8,000 foot doctors "podiatrists" (foot healers). To most patients the new name, like the old symptom, would be a pain in the foot...
...word may come from a combination of Χειρ (hand) or Χειρουργóς (surgeon) with ποūς, ποδ-(foot), or from Χειροπòδης (having chapped feet...
...chance to cover a story, he quit because reporting "didn't really have the glamour it seemed to have," turned to his father's undertaking business instead. Conveniently, what's good for Kutis' morale is good for his pocketbook; his soccer team puts his best foot forward. "You can't advertise much in this business, you know," he says. "But I'm sure the community knows Kutis...
Bigelow, a member of the National Committee of Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, plans to set out for Eniwetok on Feb. 9 in his 30-foot ketch, the "Golden Rule." He left New York for Los Angeles last night to outfit the vessel. The former commander of three Navy combat ships hopes his action will arouse the conscience of the American people to the peril of nuclear bomb testing...