Word: heel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salutary lessons, however, Mao has been unable to stifle his opposition. The Cultural Revolution Bulletin reported, in fact, that he narrowly escaped being captured by rebellious troops last July when he went to Wuhan, China's transportation hub and fifth-largest city, to bring a revolting commander to heel. Nor is Mao's dream of a China holding hands in a single, beatific chanting chain any nearer. The many months of character assassination, chaos, instigated lawlessness and near civil war have taken a terrible toll on nearly every human, political and economic resource in China...
...their way of sneezing or of wearing down their heels that a condemned people can be recognized," wrote the French playwright Jean Giraudoux. In his report on 18th century France in the shadow of the guillotine, Sanche de Gramont, Parisian journalist and historian (The Secret War, The Age of Magnificence), has done a heel measurement and sneeze count on his country's monarchy in its declining years. His conclusion confirms Giraudoux's epigram: The monarchy literally lost its head when it lost its style...
Killy's technical superiority starts with his fanatical attention to detail. His bindings must be adjusted just so: feet straightaway for a downhill race, but slightly pigeon-toed for the slaloms -so that he can get more "heel thrust" and acceleration. His choice of skis varies according to the kind of race and snow conditions; he has been known to switch skis between the two runs of a slalom race-a practice followed by few of his competitors...
...enemy has got his blade on our Achilles' heel at Khe Sanh," says a Pentagon intelligence specialist. "He's sawing away-and we're committed to hold." The blade is also poised above Westmoreland. His reputation-and much more-is riding on the ability of that barren, hillgirt outpost to stand...
...California Medical Center in San Francisco. The new device is bound to the leg by the familiar calf band of reinforced leather; an aluminum bar runs down the outside of the leg. At the ankle, it is hinged to a semicircular metal yoke that fits loosely around the heel of the shoe. This first hinge-type joint permits up-and-down motion. On the yoke behind the heel is a second joint bearing a metal pin that is screwed into the heel of the shoe. This permits sidewise motion...