Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AGRICULTURE Prospect: Foot-Dragging...
...were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train to move out while eight reporters were still rushing to clamber aboard. Hagerty dashed up ahead of the train, planted his foot on the track, forcing the engineer to stop. "They yelled like hell," recalls Hagerty. "But I knew...
...guess. In the last elections in 1953, many southern tribesmen arrived at the polls under the impression that the government was going to give them a big party. A few arrived drunk on dura (millet) beer, and at one polling station a naked tribesman appeared smeared from head to foot with white wood ash. Asked why, he replied with simple dignity: "Is my clothes." Others refused to vote at all, regarded the whole procedure as a remote, devious and none-too-honest power struggle between the "foreigners" in the north. Now, though they still live in prehistory's backyard...
Bucyk made the score 2-1 early in the second period when Johnny, speeding across the Chicago blue line ahead on the pack, took a perfect Stasiuk pass and beat Hall on a 25-foot low angle shot into the far corner...
BROOKLYN, Jan. 21--Dodgers' vice-president Buzzie Bavasi today came to the defense of the 250-foot left field fence in the Los Angeles Coliseum and, at the same time, took a verbal swing at the complaining National League pitchers...