Word: footedness
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The story of Flight 253 exposed a raft of glaring flaws in the global aviation-security network. Almost all are well known to aviation experts. Yet what President Obama eventually called a "systemic failure" caught his Administration flat-footed for the first 72 hours after the attack, as officials initially...
The fast-paced noir of the third section finds a Harlem journalist named Oscar Fate reporting on a boxing match in the Santa Teresa. Clearly the most narrowly realized of the five sections, Bolaño’s odd-footed parsing of racial and radical politics from New York...
As a teenager, Leonor Marquez led a fleet-footed unit of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrilla fighters through the steep mountain passes of Perkin, El Salvador. "We were young and fast," Marquez, now 37, remembers. She and her comrades, who were known as "Las Samuelitas", were a...
But Harvard’s offense continued to pressure. With 11 minutes to play in regulation, Grimm played a tremendous through ball to Rogers, who once again managed to find space behind the Columbia backline. Rogers took the pass in stride on the left, and launched a powerful left-footed...
The game was back and forth for the first half, with few good chances for either team. But in the 66th minute, co-captain Andre Akpan broke away and was tripped by the Tigers’ goalie in the box. On the ensuing penalty kick, Akpan wrong-footed the keeper...