Word: heeling
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...feel, is excessively rarefied. He can imagine that he is walking up a village street from his house, for instance, to the post office, but he cannot then imagine himself turning around and facing the same street in the opposite direction. Rather than pivot easily on toe and heel, he must with hideous effort swing his entire dream street, post office, taxis, stray dogs and all, 180° around on the axis of his own mad self. Eventually, obsession invades reality. He walks to the end of a real village street, cannot turn, and falls in a paralytic fit. Thus...
Without a glance at the 150 reporters who jammed the White House briefing room, Ziegler turned on his heel and walked out. Nixon himself sat down in the Executive Office Building and, working from a draft prepared by Speechwriter Ray Price, he composed his final nationwide address, which would be the 37th speech from the White House by the 37th President...
...matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will take the fall best. Otherwise you smash yourself badly." In fact, he has. In a London repertory performance of Scapino last year, he missed his Tarzan-like lunge for the rope and broke his heel. For the next few performances he played the show in a leg cast and a wheelchair. "Just like a joust," he recalls fondly...
...scrum half, Barlow will pitch the ball into the mass of bodies that make up the scrum and then wait for it to pop back out again. If it goes Harvard's way, McKinley at lock will heel the ball out of the scrum to Barlow...
...always dreamed of taking on Derek Bok and his administration cronies on your own ground, instead of theirs. Well, the Crimson has found the Achilles heel of Mass Hall...