Word: heeling
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...just too lordly to bother with anything so trivial as an undergraduate. One eager junior, preparing to write a paper on relations between the U.S. and China, asked for an appointment with Ross Terrill, then director of Harvard's East Asian Studies programs. After a long delay (standard heel cooling for an interview, claims one source, is two weeks), the youngster got in to ask advice. "Rather a waste of our time," said Terrill brusquely. "Why don't you read my congressional testimony?" The student did and wrote so well that his paper was sent to the State Department...
...stared at the window, tapping her heel impatiently as the train came to a stop in between stations. The boy kept jabbing his friend just above his Jams shorts and the elderly man nodded off to sleep. A baby started crying and its mother wiped the perspiration from its brow. Through the thick air, the conductor announced, "We ah experiencing a delay. Sorry for the inconvenience. A train should be along soon to push us to Kendall...
...much was the "High Heel Coordinator" paid? She was the person in charge of keeping plenty of spiked shoes on hand at Governor's Island in case a starlet or two, or even Nancy Reagan, broke a heel...
...FINAL THOUGHT--I wonder if anyone sitting on a boat in the harbor was thinking of the significance of the statue, or Independence Day, or the struggles of immigrants. Or were they gazing, as I am, at the Statue of Liberty and pondering Iaccoca, the High Heel Coordinator, and 200 Elvis Presley impersonators...
...mainstream scientists did not lose much sleep over the Paluxy footprints. Says Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has visited the site: "Everyone knows that they are dinosaur tracks. It's been a non-issue in the field for a long time." The question of whether some dinosaurs stepped heel first, however, remains. Kuban's contention that they came down on their metatarsals "fundamentally reorganizes what we know about the foot anatomy of bipedal dinosaurs," says David Gillette, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and organizer of the symposium. University of Texas Paleontologist Wann Langston...