Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about two seconds TV3 had followed its programing perfectly. Ponderously it lifted itself off the pad-one foot, two feet, three feet. For one blink of an eye it seemed to stand still. A tongue of orange flame shot out from beneath the rocket, darted downwind, then billowed up the right side of TV3 into a fireball 150 feet high. "There it goes! There is an explosion!" an observation pilot cried into his radio. "Black smoke is now over the entire area-We do not see the satellite rocket-We do not see the rocket that is carrying our satellite...
...third day of rioting and demonstrations by Greek-Cypriots. Sir Hugh Foot, the new British governor, appealed for calm in a radio broadcast last night...
After 2½ years of tramping hard on the nation's credit brakes, the Federal Reserve last week lifted its foot. FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and his board approved a cut in the discount rate from 3½% to 3% by Federal Reserve Banks in New York, Richmond, Atlanta and St. Louis. The remaining eight districts were expected to follow soon. Next day the stock market reversed its bearish decline of recent weeks (see below), and U.S. businessmen everywhere breathed a sigh of relief...
...square foot floor area will house offices, classrooms, and a library. The classrooms, about 12 in number, will be of medium size--holding from 25 to 40 students--and may be used by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for some undergraduate courses...
Bold Ruler broke on top. But everyone knew he had early foot. He also had Jockey Eddie Arcaro, a race-riding wizard with enough magic to boost a bag of bones out of the starting gate ahead of Man o' War. The big question: Could the Ruler run for a mile and a quarter? Jockey Arcaro never had to ask. Rounding the final turn, his mount had so much left that it hardly seemed like a horse race. Bold Ruler won in a breeze, 2¼ lengths in front of Gallant Man, 10¼ ahead of Round Table. Proud...