Word: footed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought was a tray falling, a few minutes later looked up to see Carol Paight standing in the doorway. Ditty wanted someone to come and look at her father. Nurse Smith hurried into his room, found him dying, shot through the left temple. On the tray table at the foot of his bed was his revolver. Ditty, with her blonde head resting against the wall, said quietly: "I shot...
...aphorisms on a little cake of plot no bigger than a thumb. The plot: Range's psychopathic wife fakes illness to keep her weak-willed husband away from Djuna's barge; eventually she brings both of them under her spell and has them waiting on her hand & foot. Despairing Djuna decides to sink herself, lover, barge and all. At the last minute she changes her mind and dives into a dot-studded, six-page stream of consciousness...
...signs of spring are easy to find. Some are tangible, like the slush running into the catch basin at the foot of Plympton Street. Some lie in the substitution of a word; Bermuda replaces North Conway in the eager travel advertisements. Some germinate between the gray covers of a course catalogue; spring brings the Taxonomy of Flowering Plants (Biology 103) and Seepage and Ground Water Flow (Engineering 262b...
...fleet-foot of the six in recent games has been the 150-pound Hubbard, who was elected captain after the Brown game and went on to score a goal and two assists against the Green at Hanover and pull the three-goal "hat trick" against Belmont Hill...
...great shakes in track at Indiana University, where he specialized in crosscountry and the longer distance races. Gradually he mastered the two-mile run. Then, since track promoters were hunting high & low for milers, he reluctantly tackled the shorter distance. Last week, wearing the winged-foot emblem of the New York Athletic Club, he toed the mark against six rivals in the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile...