Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried several methods of gaining access to Burma. These included pleading with Burmese embassy officials in neighboring Thailand for a visa, looking into chartering a plane to take him and Tucci secretly into the capital, and even contacting tribal chieftains inside Burma to guide them through their territory on foot. This month Stewart and Tucci finally made it into Rangoon, the capital, by means they prefer, for the moment, to keep to themselves...
...building would make a lobbyist drool. The latest and fanciest edifice in Washington's central commercial district is 1801 L Street, with a red marble exterior and a gold-plated price: $33 a square foot, a third more than neighboring rentals. The biggest tenant: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency that is supposed to enforce antidiscrimination laws. Why should taxpayers spend $5.5 million a year to house Government bureaucrats in such lavish premises? For one thing, says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, lesser quarters "would be sending the wrong signal" and might even cause people not to take...
...owners of the restaurant, Ta Chien is alive and living in Taiwan. He likes hot, spicy food. That's the wole story, were not the mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff...
...There was scant physical evidence of either chemical or gas bombings, but refugees said those victims had not lived to carry their tales across the border. In a primitive medical clinic, Caglayan Cucen, a Turkish doctor, said he would never forget treating a little Kurdish girl for an injured foot. "She was crying and crying," he said. "Then I realized that there was another sound just outside: hundreds of the Kurds, hundreds of them, had begun to cry with...
Nonetheless, witnesses in Gibraltar have said the three victims -- Mairead Farrell, 31; Daniel McCann, 30; and Sean Savage, 23 -- were unarmed, on foot and shot without warning by plainclothes gunmen, who immediately disappeared in police cars after the shootings. The accounts received some unexpected support last week from Dr. Alan Watson, a University of Glasgow pathologist who testified for the British government. He told the hearing that his work had been impeded by British officials, and described the shootings as a "frenzied attack...