Word: hotfooters
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...Hooper count on the President's plea for a Congressional hotfoot was 37,500,000 listeners. But a survey by TIME correspondents in 40 cities and towns showed that a surprising proportion had not listened to the end, that few had any intention of writing to their Congressman...
Against this gain the Chinese on their side this week could record the first solid tactical success in three weeks: swiftly marshaling a unit of undisclosed strength behind the southern flank, they turned the Japanese line, broke into the pass of Yuyangkwan, ousted a Japanese garrison and sent troops hotfoot after the Japanese retreating toward the east. The Chinese Air Force, for the first time in three years, was making an all-out effort to support ground operations, and elements of America's Fourteenth Air Force moved up to the Central China area for strategic bombing...
Wait till the Japs get a load of me on the business end of this portable hotfoot...
...about the eternal verities. The Skin of Our Teeth is like a philosophy class conducted in a monkey house. In showing how man through the ages has escaped destruction by the skin of his teeth, the play tweaks his nose, barks his shins, musses his hair, gives him the hotfoot. It tweaks its own nose too: the philosopher implies he may be a monkey himself...
Aghast at how quickly the civil-servant mentality can figure out committees to waste time, the new minister overhauled his top personnel in what became known as Bracken's Blitzkrieg. Since then he has built up a photographic department, given the hotfoot to BBC, made friends with U.S. correspondents, gained new respect for the M.O.I, from British newspapers...