Word: underfoot
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Lacking sufficient courage to brave the wet turf underfoot, or to battle a Crime team undefeated in 299 consecutive games, the Jox copped...
...town had seldom heard in recent years. Turning out the mercury vapor lamps helped little; the crickets invaded lighted houses instead. Turning out indoor lights meant a darkness in which crickets suddenly lit on eyes or mouths or necks. Worst of all was the sickening crunch of crickets underfoot and the unending chirp-chirp-chirp of their monotonous serenade...
...frills, went to town in Tara's velvet draperies. Contemporary women can now be almost as enterprising. They can pick from Designer Jenny Bell Whyte's new collection of "Museum Pieces," which gives proof that some of the best fashion around has for years been underfoot, on walls and over windows...
After commenting that "Williams' anger over the slow progress of the fight for equality is more understandable than some of his charges. His depiction of 'white power' a 'a marsh underfoot for anyone not white . . . treacherous and deadly' is, of course, wildly exaggerated," Time concluded its article with a forceful defense of King. "King's compromises were not capitulation, but sane and sound recognition of the way progress historically has been wrung from the American system...
...beside Erich, no one else seemed to care. Eventually the crowd drifted into the theatre proper, where everyone drifted around in search of seats like so many fish in this great, midnight blue aquarium. All about, little pops and minor explosions resounded as champagne glasses were dropped and trampled underfoot-and this would continue throughout the running of the film...