Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government officials and our press appear to be behaving like a pair of sulky boys who have been bested in a foot race. The moon race can teach us Americans a lesson in humility, which is probably more valuable than first place in a prestige contest...
Labor Candidate Dingle Foot, brother of newly appointed Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot (see below), won in a walk as the Tory vote slumped by nearly 10,000 votes from 1955. But Foot's own returns slid 5,500 votes below the Labor mark of two years ago. Biggest gainers were the third-party Liberals, who entered their first candidate since 1950, polled 20% of the total vote. Pointing to similar gains in other recent contests, Liberals talked hopefully of a big parliamentary comeback for the party of Gladstone, Palmerston and Lloyd George. More probably, the apparent Liberal strength...
...with soldierly ruthlessness. But, the chastening experience of Suez destroyed all thought of a reasserted British dominance in the area, and Cyprus was no longer essential to British strategists. Last week Her Majesty's government announced that in December Harding will be replaced by Sir Hugh Foot, 50, now Governor of Jamaica...
...successor is a career diplomat with a reputation for getting along with all kinds of people on every side of a dispute. Sir Hugh is a brother of Ipswich's new Labor M.P. Dingle Foot and left-wing Laberite Michael Foot, editor of Aneurin Beva.i's Tribune. Tall, shrewd, Cambridge-trained Sir Hugh has served in posts ranging from Nigeria (where a terrorist slashed his jacket in an assassination attempt) to Palestine (where both Arabs and Jews considered him a friend). He is favorably remembered in Cyprus as a World War II civilian official who was liked...
...foot dummy nicknamed Agatha swung from atop the tower of Moors Hall last night. The effigy was a combination of wire, newspaper, and tennis balls all compiled in a neat, morbid package...