Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since 1912, the U.S. Army altered the shape of its shoes, added ⅛-in. greater clearance over the little toe for "improved foot health...
Then they wheeled in the cake, a six-foot copy of a movie camera. Broadway's Betty Garrett (Mrs. Larry Parks) led the song composed for the occasion...
...only doubtful starter is Shorty Minot, who is still bothered by his injured foot. Defenseman Charlie Coulter has been working out at wing on the first line as a possible replacement...
...Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended the need...
...Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism to accompany the portrait (e.g., for Petrillo, a foot stepping on a pile of phonograph records). Most TIME cover stories are written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call for a special literary skill, are written by Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers. Some Chambers cover...