Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish Cypriots in December 1963, the two countries nearly came to blows, and Turkey actually bombed and strafed Greek Cypriot positions. In recent months, however, a measure of peace and order finally seemed to descend on the island where Aphrodite, the goddess of love, first set her foot on land. Down came many of the roadblocks that had divided Cyprus into warring camps. Sniping incidents declined, and the two ethnic groups even began to mix with one another on a relatively friendly, if cautious, basis. Earlier this month, as a gesture of good will, the Greek Cypriot government of Archbishop...
Metal leg braces are all too familiar to the victims of such disorders as muscular dystrophy or polio. The double-bar braces are heavy and clumsy, with a stirrup under the instep, and they induce muscle atrophy by permitting the foot to move only up and down. In normal walking, the body's weight tends to throw the heel of each foot alternately either outward or inward, depending on the terrain, but such movement is prevented by the conventional brace...
Hager came far out of the goal minutes later to cut down the angle on Harvard's Jaime Vargas. Vargas rocketed a ball that bounced straight back off Hager. The Crimson junior instinctively kicked his foot again and the ball went past Hager toward the empty goal fifteen yards away...
...flight that revitalized the lagging Apollo program and raised hopes that the U.S. may yet land men on the moon before 1970. Generating 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust and one of the loudest sounds ever produced by man,* the first-stage engines lifted the 3,000-ton, 363-foot-high vehicle to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,100 m.p.h. only 21 minutes after liftoff. During this stage of the flight, the rocket, taller than the Statue of Liberty, could be seen as far away as Jacksonville, 150 miles distant...
...with a massive infusion of material aid. "One can't fight a militant doctrine with better privies," he writes. Fall's perceptions of men at war permeate his last articles and a tape recording recovered from his body. "It smells bad," he commented moments before his foot triggered the mine. "Could...