Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nudists of the American Sunbathing Association worked out a neat solution to the problem of a Peeping Tom who was eyeing their convention in Colorado's Deer Creek Canyon through a three-foot telescope. They trapped him, escorted him down out of the brush, made him take off his clothes, then invited him to stare all he wanted...
...Dwarf was a five-foot Chinese gunman who had been arrested 15 months ago with 18 others for hijacking a $2,000,000 shipment of gold on its way to Bangkok's Don Muang airport. Now he was out on bail while the case dragged on in Siam's slowpoke courts. So was another chief suspect, a husky retired police captain named Pramote Prathuengphong. The two thieves, it seemed, had fallen...
...Spanish conquistadores had always believed that somewhere in northeastern Peru lay the land of the Indian king, El Dorado, a man so fabulously rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
...some places the growth was so thick "that without a watch you would mistake midday for daybreak or sunset." Some days, cutting a trail with machetes, the party progressed as little as two miles. Boggy ground made walking hazardous. Food grew scarce, and dysentery developed. Once a 20-foot python knocked down a soldier. Men who fell ill returned to Moyobamba...
...Wrong Foot. In Kampsville, Ill., James Inman carried his bride across the threshold, slipped and broke his ankle...