Word: footing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mind was bouncing excitedly from one famous foot maintenance to another?Jesus washing the feet of his apostles, Mary Magdalene rubbing Jesus’ toes with her hair?when I realized my mani-pedi was over...
...felt guilty sitting there and acting as if I took this personal foot care for granted. But without any Hindi, my conversational efforts were limited to, “You have big family? Ah, very good, very good!” He was running a pointy stick around my nails. All of this seemed very complicated...
...contrast, Harvard’s current up-and-coming star, a skinny 6 foot 4 inch freshman called Dallas R. Simons, is calibrated to deflect such self-aggrandizing talk. The former captain of a Martin Luther King High School team that finished second in the nation his junior year, the soft-spoken Nashville native consistently ducks self-promotion...
...late real-estate mogul Seymour Durst first erected the clock on Feb. 20, 1989 to call attention to the consequences of Reaganomics. At the time, the country had a national debt of $2.7 trillion. The original 25-foot-wide, 1,500-pound, 306-bulb sign cost more than $120,000 to create and install. (It now costs more than $500 a month to operate and maintain the light bulbs). Durst told reporters he had no plans to ever remove the clock. "It'll be up as long as the debt or the city lasts," he said, adding, "If it bothers...
...focus and go about the job at hand.”The Big Red (1-8, 0-2), who came into the game having been outscored 21-5, proved no match for the Crimson. Co-captain Fucito opened the scoring in the 26th minute with a beautiful left-footed strike, and after Stamatis made it 2-0 right after halftime, Cornell never really threatened to get back into the match. Harvard coasted to the win in what was an uneventful last 30 minutes.“I think that we did really well in spurts,” Stamatis said...