Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During practice sparring, the trainers cover the birds' spurs with miniature boxing gloves, but at the cockpit a deadly, razor-sharp, two-inch blade is strapped onto each bird's left foot...
...most important thing to remember," Thesiger stressed to Wilde, "is that when I did my journeys, I did them the only way they could be done, by camel or on foot." He wrote his books in the same unhurried fashion, patiently putting one incident after another, savoring the landscape, the history and the lore. As well as any travel writer of the 19th and 20th centuries, Thesiger conveys the explorers' bond of shared solitude. He shows human nature in its crucible, including the elements of savagery and the instinct for hospitality, which flourishes best in the most inhospitable terrain...
...life at risk. His safaris into unmapped regions were frequently threatened by bandits and tribesmen who had a tendency to kill and castrate strangers. On the staff of a British district commission in the Sudan, he was regularly called on to shoot cattle-killing lions. He did so on foot, sharing great dangers with villagers armed only with spears. During World War II he fought Italians in Ethiopia; in Libya he took part in raids on German encampments and communications as part of a jeep-mounted guerrilla unit...
While some children completed the move on foot, perhaps pushing a medicine bag hanging from a pole or nursing an arm in a cast, others moved in wheelchairs or special sterile tents...
When Harvard was unable to get many second shots on offense, it appeared history would repeat itself. The Bulldogs started hitting from the outside. Forward Randi Meberg's 15-foot jumper and sophomore Paula Kenefick's three-point shot put the home team up 17-10 halfway through the first half, the biggest lead either team, would enjoy throughout the entire contest...