Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason to be elated. Last week's docking marked the successful conclusion of a complex and dangerous operation. It provided the final evidence that the lunar module, plagued with problems during its testing on earth, was really spaceworthy. It also immeasurably boosted prospects that U.S. astronauts would set foot on the moon this summer...
Increasingly, students at Harvard are displaying an unnerving self-confidence in their own ability to do anything, an attitude that seems alien to the old academic virtue of modest contemplation at the foot of the savants. Celebrated professors like John Kenneth Galbraith and George Wald no longer command the ardent reverence once enjoyed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Perry Miller and Crane Brinton, the superstars of the '50s. Explains Mike Tompkins, a junior from Paris who is both a Presidential and a National Merit Scholar: "There are many admirable men at Harvard and they are appreciated. But we have very...
...cannot help but say that Huey P. Newton is the baddest mother fucker ever to set foot inside of history...
...Where are you wounded?" he asked me. I pointed out my wound to him. The Pig of Pigs looked down at my wound, raised his foot and stomped on the wound...
...short-lived lead. Musclemen Dick Benka and Ed Nosal exploded for victories in the shot put and 35-pound weight respectively. Benka, hobbling for the past week from an ankle injury, uncorked a heave of 59'1" to outdistance George Allen of St. John's by more than a foot for his second consecutive IC4A championship...