Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...session at the U.N., Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Castiella took the floor to respond to an attack by Khrushchev on General Franco. Khrushchev blew up. He began to shout insults at the Spaniard, punctuating them by pounding his fists on the desk and then, having removed his shoe, banging it resoundingly on the desk too. Then he leaped from his chair and brandished his fists at the frail, undersized Castiella, who assumed a comical defensive pose. Security guards rushed up and separated them. We were stunned at Khrushchev's behavior. At the mission afterward, everyone was embarrassed and upset...
...Nike Airborne shoe, developed for runners aged eight to twelve, features the same ergonomic principles as professional running footwear. But the distinctive design feature is the use of a special material in the toe tips and heel that reflects automobile lights at night for safety...
Father: No. We need you to keep us in shoe leather. Off you go down to the factory. I'm for a pint...
...audience and himself. Lemmon's trademarked excesses are part of the character; they play off Ivanek's imploding edginess in a generational combat of acting styles. Guess who wins in this expanded and affecting version of Bill C. Davis' 1981 Broadway comedy? The old soft-shoe salesman may be a little weak in liberation theology, but he does know how to work a room...
...Freeman, 64, reclusive founder of a controversial eleven-year-old faith-healing sect, the Faith Assembly, whose 2,000 members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease. The Fort...