Word: tenderfooted
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...will be the Institute for Advanced Study's third director (his predecessors: Abraham Flexner and Frank Aydelotte). Oppy favors porkpie hats and good horses. During the war he and his wife traveled by horseback from their Pecos Valley ranch to Los Alamos, to the considerable mortification of a tenderfoot FBI agent who had to ride along. Oppy's pet peeve: anybody who underestimates the Bomb ("Its limitations? The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving...
First step in the development of a tenderfoot Russian athlete is a BGTO badge ("Be Ready for Work & Defense"), issued for skill in running, swimming, skiing-and shooting. Next comes a tougher test for the coveted GTO badge ("Ready for Work & Defense"). A GTO can swim fully clad, run 1.8 miles in twelve minutes -and make parachute jumps...
They sat back, ready to chew up Alaska Airlines when it weakened further. But Tenderfoot Law planned to fool them. This week, he flew north with a hatful of plans which he firmly believes will 1) make Alaska Airlines undisputed top dog, 2) put it in a key spot athwart postwar Great Circle routes to the Orient...
...American Indian. George Catlin was a great-great-uncle of mine. One particularly delightful anecdote which has come down in the family concerns a feast given to a visitor, a friend of Catlin's. As the assemblage sat on the ground, a squaw passed behind the tenderfoot and whispered hospitably, "Dig deep, white man; puppy in bottom...
...Hawley system to find these provinces was to "drill all over hell." Confidently oilmen sat back and waited for Tenderfoot Hawley to go broke. By last week there was little chance that this would happen. In Hocking County, Ohio, Wildcatter Hawley had brought in a new well, this time gas. But he had high hopes of drilling deeper and striking...