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Word: footedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 20 minutes of lackluster debate, the clerk began calling the roll for a vote on the Lausche amendment. The Senate's Democratic leadership was caught flat-footed-not for the first time this year.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Helping Tito | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Lust makes this particular world go round, and Zero Mostel is its comic axis. Seemingly composed of double chins that reach to his knees, Mostel is a paradoxically dainty and light-footed man whose humors merge the ballet with the pratfall. Whether he is rolling his eyes like berserk marbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bawdy Beautiful | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heap o' writin' | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

> A month after he had stamped himself as the world's fastest miler, with a 3-min. 54.4-sec. clocking at Wanganui, New Zealand, light-footed Peter Snell (TIME, Feb. 9) also proved himself a man of his word. Promising to entertain his Auckland neighbors with a sub-4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

The story concerns Cassandra Edwards' neurotic, domineering attachment for her twin sister Judith. Judy leaves the family ranch in Southern California to study music in the East, returns a year later with a fiance in tow. Cass, studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, is panic-stricken. She rushes home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One v. Two | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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