Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fleet-footed Tom O'Connor left nothing to chance. One of seven children of a milkman, O'Connor grew up in Springfield's "Hungry Hill" section, has battled his way through politics ever since he ran for (and won) the presidency of his junior high school student...
Written originally in German, Bacchanal is afflicted with a left-footed translation.
Beneath the low-slung hood snorts a cocky engine that is even smaller than the put-putter of the family Volkswagen (1,100 cc. v. 1,192 cc.). But everything else about the racing machine is big league, from the rakish cut of its body to its four-speed gearbox...
What keeps him sure-footed may well be an obsession with the craft of storytelling. One of his favorite games is called "openers" and consists of inventing bizarre movie situations. Quite a few of them reach the screen. One of his most famous openers, eventually used in Bluebeard's...
West Side Story. Gang warfare in the slums of Manhattan still moves along in a lively revival, thanks to Shakespeare's inspiration and some remarkably fancy-footed rumbles.