Word: underfoot
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...French poet once asked "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" He could never have written that in Cambridge. The snows of yesterday are right here, underfoot with those of the year before, growing shaggy in the sun but patiently waiting for that chance to turn an ankle or crumple...
Except for the free admission, the atmosphere of the Stadium was about the game as usual. Concessionaires hawked their wares gaily dressed girls abounded and numerous small urchins clambered about underfoot. The band a little smaller than usual, marched and played with great enthusiasm. Even the electric scoreboard and the public address system were working...
...everywhere except underfoot. It hung from trees and on bushes, on fences and around a swimming pool. Chartered buses covered the shows with a grueling ten-hour tour. Mexican dancers, Negro-spiritual singers, Hollywood starlets and a borrowed elephant livened the proceedings. The artists themselves hovered near at hand, ready with explanations and price lists. "It makes me feel good to be looked at," one of them informed a gaping bobbysoxer, "but I wish people would look at my pictures instead...
...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...