Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brunis have other talents, too. In halfback John McTigue and reserve scatback, George Gorgodian, they will display speed of foot that the Crimson will find difficult to match...
Wounded in foot and arms by the blast, Ben-Gurion tried to still panic. "Sit down, everybody, don't leave your seats," he cried. But the Parliament floor was already alive with activity. "Get an ambulance!", "Call a doctor!", "Don't crowd!" shouted some of the members, as others rushed for first-aid equipment. In the midst of the commotion, two doctor-parliamentarians found their way to Minister of Religious Affairs and Social Welfare Moshe Shapiro, whose blood was gushing from bad wounds in the stomach and head...
...scheduled November production to the lowest rate in 2½ years. Drilling was off, and one drilling contractor reported: "One third of our rigs are down and the others are not making any money." And prairie farmers counted their losses in millions of dollars when early storms dumped a foot of snow on fields of unharvested wheat and sugar beets...
...majestic statue of St. Peter in the Vatican, a figure so noble in size and concept that it dwarfs even Lady Flora's proud body and arrogant mind. She comes daily to stand in communion with the statue and watch the devout worshipers kiss St. Peter's foot. One day a rude man of the people catches her attention because "he stood still so long with his mouth against St. Peter's foot." When he moves on. Lady Flora is impelled to kiss the saintly toe as well. Her reward, however, is not faith but syphilis...
...ambivalent, man contorted both in soul and action, and evil often wears the face of good. Thus, in Copenhagen Season, the very strength of a soldier's love loses him the prize he wants; in A Country Tale, a proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare...