Word: footpadded
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...ghostly, white-clad figure slowly descended the ladder. Having reached the bottom rung, he lowered himself into the bowl-shaped footpad of Eagle, the spindly lunar module of Apollo 11. Then he extended his left foot, cautiously, tentatively, as if testing water in a pool. That groping foot, encased in a heavy multilayered boot (size 9½B), would remain indelible in the minds of millions who watched it on TV, and a symbol of man's determination to step-and forever keep stepping-toward the unknown...
While it has long been known that leprosy is one of the most difficult diseases to catch, nevertheless some people still catch it.-Shepard's footpad test, involving the injection of disease material into mice to see whether bacilli grow out, has enabled U.S. Public Health Service physicians to show that after a few months of treatment with a sulfone drug (Dapsone), most patients are virtually noninfectious. Then they can safely be released from hospitals to live at home with their families and go to work. And it is now possible to determine in a few months what used...
...ghostly, white-clad figure slowly descended the ladder. Having reached the bottom rung, he lowered himself into the bowl-shaped footpad of Eagle, the spindly lunar module of Apollo 11. Then he extended his left foot, cautiously, tentatively, as if testing water in a pool?and, in fact, testing a wholly new environment for man. That groping foot, encased in a heavy multi-layered boot (size 9½B), would remain indelible in the minds of millions who watched it on TV, and a symbol of man's determination to step?and forever keep stepping?toward the unknown...
...porch," he will pull a ring that opens a storage area and exposes a mounted TV camera, which will relay to audiences on earth a view of his awkward progress down the LM's ladder. At the bottom, Armstrong will place his right foot in the bowl-shaped footpad and?by 2:22 a.m. Monday, if he is on schedule?plant his left foot firmly on lunar soil...
...venture out on one of his solitary walks without a brace of loaded pistols in his coat and the company of his Great Dane, Bounce. Though he never had occasion to fire the weapons in anger, and Bounce never got to take a piece out of an embittered literary footpad, Pope's anxiety was far from groundless...