Word: underfoot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watching and listening to the frail old aesthete on television, former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan told the House of Commons last week, was like hearing "the rustle of dead leaves underfoot. I could hear those accents of someone from the 1930s...
...went to," recalls Meryl, "was Douglas Moore's The Wings of the Dove, with Beverly Sills. It was incredible to see her onstage. Until then, I thought she was just a nice lady who had the lesson before me." One morning Meryl got up, squashed her glasses underfoot, put peroxide and lemon juice on her hair and set out to be "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout." Boys quickly appeared, and so did a high school teacher determined to build musicals around Meryl's singing. During her freshman year, she made her first appearance onstage as Marian...
...thought. This was the American conflict I had prayed someday to see: little guy in drag wheeling and kicking and crippling his clean-cut detractors, nylons ripping, wig flying off onto the ground, neck-ties shredded and doffed underfoot...
...plan. Dean Fox took two facts--that the Quad was less popular than the River Houses, and that there were freshmen at the Quad but not at the River--and concluded that no one wanted to live in a House where freshmen were always getting underfoot. He also called to mind the salubrious effects on freshmen of a "unified freshman experience," and herded his youthful charges into the relative safety of the walled-in Yard. Since the Task Force on Counseling concluded earlier this year that freshmen were better adjusted to college when they lived among upperclassmen than when they...
...them hostage in a pit. At this point, Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu was summoned from his Black Sea vacation and brought to the scene by helicopter. Surrounded by armed bodyguards, the Rumanian leader warned the miners that unless he can maintain absolute order and discipline, "we will be trampled underfoot by others"-meaning a possible Soviet invasion. He also promised that the miners' grievances would be given serious consideration. After the miners returned to work, however, some of their leaders were arrested or beaten by police. According to the reports, 4,000 strikers were fired, and others were sent...