Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bruckel took a corner too tightly, hit the wooden strip guarding the inside of the track, slipped and fell. His flying foot hit Young and tore his shoe off, but Young never broke stride. Huvelle and teammate Dave McKelvey did. The slightly injured Huvelle finished second anyway in 1:11.8 behind Young's 1:11.0. McKelvey was fourth...
...bounced from job to job. But he was an avid woodsman, and in 1912, while trudging on wet, blistered feet through the forest, he suddenly hit upon the idea of a boot with a rubber bottom attached to a leather top. From that inspiration came the famous "Maine Hunting Shoe"-which a hunter, Bean later boasted, "might like better than his wife." Once in business, Bean gradually expanded into other lines, and his factory grew into a labyrinth of makeshift additions and rickety dumbwaiters...
...three nights of hot-weather rioting last July, Negro hoodlums methodically pillaged stores and trucks, and looting by whites and Negroes alike was common in other parts of the city as well. More than 100 persons were arrested. At one point, police caught ransackers breaking into a Roosevelt Road shoe store. In the exchange of gunfire that resulted, a ten-year-old Negro girl was killed...
...mired in a clicheland where the journey through life is so predictable that it seems exactly like going nowhere. It begins with Wedding-Night Jitters. Yes, the new groom is frightened back into his pants. Morning-After Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their bare feet. Comes the nine-month dawn, or Counting the Contractions. "This has been going on for millions and millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston, looking as if he were in protracted labor pains of his own, replies ruefully: "How did the men ever live through...
...thing the show makes amply clear: Hals is not just the painter of laughing cavaliers and gypsy girls. He is, in fact, more of a Dutch uncle than he first appears. Many of his women are as homely as a wooden shoe. He lived during the dawn of the age of reason, when the philosopher Rene Descartes, whom Hals painted, proclaimed "I think, therefore I am." Man as pictured by Hals bulks almost impertinently from the canvas, but often there is a glint of self-knowledge in his eyes...