Word: insteps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Potenza is a sunbaked community in southern Italy on a hilltop overlooking the Basento valley near the instep of the Italian boot. During the war, the U.S. Army had a rest center there for its troops. Today few foreigners enter this desolate, impoverished region whose capital is Potenza...
Father's Pain. His interest began with a pain in his father's foot. His father, a doctor, suffered from metatarsalgia (a pain between instep and toes). His medical colleagues did him no good, but an oldtime chiropodist helped him. Said Lewi's father: "Maurice, someday it may be your opportunity to let the doctors know the value of foot care." That was in 1876, when Maurice was a medical student...
...Stravinsky, who has been writing ballets since 1909 . . . knows very well the logical anatomical basis of the Five Absolute Ballet Positions. In the Third Position (the heel of one foot locked against the instep of the other, weight equally distributed, with complete turnout), Mr. Stravinsky would have found it awkward to execute the traditional stage bow derived from the imperial Russian theater. He took it in Fourth Position (with weight equally divided, the fore foot is twelve inches in advance of the back...
...nothing short of the Square is small compared to the students who meander with the intention of crossing, but without the patience to be careful. Drivers who aim for pedestrians are negligible compared with the pedestrians who bluff any car that strikes their fancy-before it strikes their instep. Often the bluffer forces the car to swerve and thus hit someone else...
...offered instructions. Among them: let the jacket sleeves be narrow, and the shirt cuff showing; never wear a striped shirt with a striped suit; wear suspenders instead of a belt; let the knot of the tie be loose instead of tight; let the trousers break just over the instep; stay away from jewelry. "The well-dressed man," certified the famously high-styled actor, "is never conspicuous...