Word: hotfoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toads & Bloodworms. But at the same time he finds villainy of all kinds wildly entertaining. He is convinced that man's inhumanity to man-whether expressed in a simple hotfoot or an atomic explosion- is the basis of all humor, and he can discuss grafters, murderers and wife-beaters as delightedly as a zoologist describing a sporty specimen of toad or bloodworm. Capp is a large-framed, large-headed, exuberant man with a shock of black hair, bottomless energy and a bullfrog voice. He often climaxes a denunciation of some awful piece of skulduggery by bursting into ribald laughter...
...terrible hotfoot for the Senator. Thirty-six-year-old George Smathers was not only ambitious, but he was the first opponent really to threaten Pepper in the 14 years since he went to the Senate. Pepper hit the road even before Smathers took the stump. Last week, only six weeks away from the Democratic primary, the only election that counts in Democratic Florida, they were whaling away at each other in the hottest campaign the state had seen in years...
From the beginning of the Judy CoplonValentin Gubichev espionage trial, Manhattan's big, moon-faced Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan had been getting a hotfoot from the defense lawyers almost every day. Even after Judy fired her bench-baiting lawyer-brassy, little Archie Palmer-in midtrial, things did not improve. The court got her three lawyers who had been assisting Archie. Judy pouted and said she didn't like them. Then the attorneys pouted. They obviously hoped to appeal on grounds that Government Girl Judy Coplon was the victim of prejudicial treatment: as the trial drew to a close...