Word: hotfooted
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...behind these smiling faces and smitten backs were sullen tempers that threatened to ignite a partisan hotfoot and turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
...some wickedly gratifying swipes at the kinds of nosy, sentimental Americans who are sure, at their comfortable distance, What to Do with Germany. Some of the cynicism about the "conditions" Miss Arthur observes is refreshing, too. But most of the picture is about as tastefully amusing as slipping the hotfoot to a dying...
Torch of Learning. In Matthews, Ind., High-School Teacher Hobart Black was fired for waking up somnolent students by giving them the hotfoot...
...Jersey jury awarded one Richard Kiener $2,500 for injuries incurred when someone gave him a hotfoot and inadvertently set his pants afire while he was dozing in a Paterson saloon...
...booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political hotfoot...