Word: underfoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood up, shoved into his coat. It would be a good idea to check on the books he'd have to take home--he might as well spend the vacation studying, for with all the obnoxious children underfoot at home he would need some excuse to get away...
...Republican-controlled 80th Congress continually harped on its "mandate" from the people to curb labor unions and "halt the trend to socialism." But the mandate of the 1948 elections seems to have been trampled underfoot along with most of Truman's proposals. The people, as the President said, have a right to expect Congress to carry out the program which they, the people, have endorsed. The next session will be the 81st's last chance...
When Stan Priddy's freshman hockey team meets Yale at New Haven this afternoon, it will get another of its few chances to see how ice actually feels underfoot. With scarcely any practise time behind them, the Yardling skaters will have to fight hard to beat a squad--supposedly equal on paper that can boast a long string of practise sessions in recent weeks...
...Saturday up at Brunswick, Maine, the team, playing little attention to the wisps of snow underfoot and the howling gale overhead, swatted its way to an 8 to 1 victory over Bowdoin. Patriots Day found the same crew celebrating at Wesleyan, this time in a match that was called because of rain, with Harvard ahead...
...action will be taken against the cross-and-hammer brigade, one of whom was called to Watson's office late in the afternoon. But the Dean Warned that when University property is underfoot, disciplinary action may be invoked whether or not order is maintained...