Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eldorado I suffered the terrifying experience of jamming the shoe on the other foot. Having often watched the patient President tee off, my foursome of reporters found itself in the position of being watched by Ike, who had stepped over from the 13th green to watch our drives. This was all right for the other three, all better-than-average golfers. Since I have never broken 100 and have been known to endanger spectators no more hazardously placed than at right angles to my line of fire, my vision blurred, my knuckles went white, my breathing became irregular...
...took 25 days, and nearly as many tantrums, for Nikita Khrushchev finally to win a vote in the United Nations. In getting his way, Khrushchev banged his fists, took off a shoe and thumped it on his desk, shook a finger under the nose of a Spanish delegate, and harangued the world in a purple-faced passion...
Near panic set in among the Communist delegates. Rumania's Deputy Foreign Minister Eduard Mezincescu popped up on a point of order, and Khrushchev took off his shoe, waved it and pounded it. Then, apparently dissatisfied with Mezincescu's protest, Nikita Khrushchev strode briskly down the aisle to pour vituperation on Sumulong...
...needlessly exposes the company to the peril of stockholders' suits and a damaged public reputation. To avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing, many a U.S. executive could well recall an old Chinese proverb: "When passing through your neighbor's melon patch, do not stoop to tie your shoe...
...wonder was that Wilma Rudolph could run at all. The 17th in a family of 19 children, Wilma had a series of crippling childhood diseases, did not walk until she was eight, and then had to wear a hightop, corrective shoe. By high school, Wilma had improved enough to become a four-year, all-state basketball player and to clean up in track. Now a junior at Tennessee State, Wilma is studying to be a teacher (average grade: B plus), has so little trouble winning races in the U.S. that she has sometimes slowed down in mid-sprint to shout...