Word: footing
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Rendell, Ed •foot of is yet again placed firmly in mouth...
STEALTH MOVE Step on a fighter's foot to keep him stationary. But you must move quickly to avoid the ref's gaze...
...According to an article in the Stanford alumni magazine, while an assisant secretary of state, Rice once listened as Nigerian opposition leaders praised a recent tough speech she had given, completely unaware that the 5-foot-3, 33-year-old Rice was the one who had delivered it. Rice waited until the discussion had ended, smiled and introduced herself, shocking...
...people. In 1901, the first of many mass sit-down Christmas dinners at Madison Square Garden was funded by kettle donations. Despite occasional bans over the years on kettle set-ups outside stores and malls, which sometimes prohibit the bell ringers on the grounds that they block foot traffic and invite others to solicit at entryways, the Salvation Army says it raised $118 million through the program in 2007. (The charity is also in the process of distributing a $1.5 billion donation from Joan Kroc, the wife of the founder of McDonald's, to open community centers around the country...
...best were the ones in which the place was really the context for the story, and you learn something about the place as well. Finding the pieces was sometimes a matter of going to the out-of-town newsstand - which is probably closed by now - and buying a two-foot pile of newspapers from various parts of the country. Obviously reporters are always looking for stories with some tension and some narrative movement. I often found myself in places where one part of society was rubbing up against another. And then sometimes I'd sort of feel worn down...