Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...14th century, when the bubonic plague ravaged Europe, Italian physicians wore an elaborate garb to protect themselves from infection. The outfit extended from head to foot and was made entirely of leather. A wide-brimmed hat kept the physician from the patient, and the doctors never touched the patients by hand. The suit also included a protruding beak stuffed with herbs to "purify" the air and separate the physician and the patient...
...frame is diminished, standing, as he is, at the edge of a grove of young Paul Bunyans. He's talking to -- no, he's shouting at -- one of them. About the option play. How to execute it correctly. As he plants one foot and pivots decisively, moving his hands in a precise pattern that he's repeated thousands of times before, the young man in the football jersey barks...
...crowd that waited for him to speak in front of West Berlin's city hall occupied every foot of the square and all the connecting streets. Kennedy raised his jaw and chopped the air with his hand, his voice growing ragged as he shouted his challenges to the other world and answered with his famous $ refrain, "Let them come to Berlin." In that moment the tribute Kennedy gave to those people was as honorably held, as profoundly pure as anything he had ever said. It was made of truth and given to history. "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...rate to increase further. Today, the ratio of people receiving benefits to workers paying for them is one to 3.3. By the time Social Security begins dipping into its imaginary trust fund in 2030, the ratio will be one to two. If benefits are not limited, the workers who foot the bill for our generation's retirees will suffer an unconscionable burden...
...almost 50 years, the Soviets have blamed the Germans for the Katyn massacre, despite evidence pointing unmistakably to Stalin's secret police, the NKVD. Last week a prominent American visitor rendered his own verdict. At the foot of the monument, he placed a bouquet of red roses bearing a handwritten message penned in both Polish and English: "For the victims of Stalin and the NKVD. Zbigniew Brzezinski...