Word: underfoot
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...anything about it, but Beverly wangled him the job of city doctor. When he got an appointment as surgeon at the hospital he had his hands full. Women found him attractive. Katie, his landlady's slatternly but provocative daughter, had a particularly shameless desire for him, was always underfoot till he sent her off to be a trained nurse...
...general plane of planetary revolution than any other except one (43°). But it seemed odd for Dr. Hubble, of all astronomers, to be making such a discovery, for the realm in which he usually works is so distant that the asteroids by comparison are practically underfoot. He just happened to catch the little planet, in fact, while he was photographing an island universe of stars hundreds of millions of light years from Earth...
...Christmas card which showed him scrambling up a ladder with a laundry bag on his shoulder. His friendship with Son George Hearst led to his becoming the 17th publisher to be hired by Father Hearst for his Washington Times. In a year, he got himself fired for being underfoot in the city rooms...
Milwaukee's two biggest dailies outdid themselves in their enthusiasm to "assist parents in finding things for children to do" while underfoot at home. Hearst's Wisconsin News elaborately offered each day's lessons to the 25,000 marooned tots. The Journal got primary teachers themselves to broadcast to their pupils twice daily...
...capitalist forces about 100 English workers and several hundred workers in England's colonies and the oppressed countries to drudge for him. . . . These enslaved people must unite! Yes, we must array ourselves against the English bourgeoisie. We must seize the English Imperialist by the throat and trample him underfoot...