Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The contentious atmosphere can promote flexibility. The Microsoft Network began as a proprietary online system like CompuServe or America Online. When the open standards of the Internet changed the game, Microsoft was initially caught flat-footed. Arguments ensued. Soon it became clear it was time to try a new strategy...
Arriving uneven, never healed, gasping and yet certainly undanceable, unjumpable, and unslamable, the songs tend to root audience members, who are used to being able to recline in their sweet darkness (or their lover's sweet arms!), to a double-footed position on the floor, nearly impassive, as if unwittingly...
Two minutes later, captain Will Kohler was escaped from his defender in the box, took a pass from junior Tom McLaughlin and left-footed another close-range shot into the net.
Bowes left-footed it hard and in the air towards the opposite corner, but that goalie--freshman Jennifer Traw--hyperextended her body upwards and snatched it. An inch or two higher, and the ball would have either deflected in or right to fellow Crimsonite Emily Stauffer.
Last week intrepid birders--they don't call themselves bird watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the...