Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first rockets mounted on the underside of the wings of Navy planes-we couldn't have known we were spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot up their own fuselage and the plane came crippling in-a mech had lost a foot and Mac's hand was badly injured. Mac's rueful remark was that it was a pretty stupid way to have to earn a Purple Heart...
...Englishmen of his generation have sired so many eminent sons as the Right Honorable Isaac Foot, 77, onetime leader of Britain's Liberal Party. Son Dingle, 52, former chairman of the trust that runs the London Observer, was for 14 years a Liberal M.P., is now a prominent Laborite and an ornament of the British bar. Son Michael, 44, a former Labor M.P.. edits the Bevanite left-wing weekly Tribune. But most prominent of all the Foot sons at the moment is 50-year-old Sir Hugh, who, as Governor of Cyprus, has been energetically working to bring...
Last week, for the benefit of the London Daily Mail Isaac Foot indulged in some reflections on his distinguished brood. "Sir Hugh." said he, "was always considered the slightly out-of-step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family...
This sally drew a reply from brother John, who is a partner in the Foot family solicitors' firm in Plymouth. Tartly, John accused Sir Hugh of advertising "his intellectual accomplishments-such as they are." Sir Hugh's letter, John went on, disclosed "a monumental arrogance which leads him to assume that we, his brothers, have nothing better to do than discuss him and his affairs with newspapermen...
...Radcliffe graduate student, Miss Brooke Aronson, of New York, was assaulted last evening as she entered her dormitory. A few minutes afterward, police arrested a six-foot man whom she identified as her assailant...