Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Stahlmen ruined Watts' hope of a shutout in the sixth inning. Chuck Roche led off with a bingle to left. The fleet-footed boy then pilfered-second and moved around to score after Don Swegan and Mel Allen ground out.
Like many another schoolboy outcast, flop-footed, inky-fingered "Bop" La Farge plugged his dogged way out of pariahdom. In his third year he tackled another bully, finished him off with an astonished "30 seconds of deliriously swinging one haymaker after another." In the Fourth Form he was a star...
The French footed the bill for the most part, through reverse Lend-Lease. But in a France short of everything, the Army had to furnish materials, comb through the Nazi prisoners for skilled workmen, haul coal for the plants from northern France, even supply food.
After 78 days of committee consideration and two days of debate on the floor, the House last week approved U.S. participation in the Bretton Woods monetary program. On the final vote, party lines dissolved: 138 Republicans joined with 205 Democrats (and two minor party members) to pass, the bill, 345...
Many of the plants hit by the sweeping cutbacks, such as Douglas, Consolidated Vultee and Lockheed, had a cushion: some of the manpower and facilities will be shifted to making planes for the Pacific war. But for Henry Ford's Willow Run, there was nothing to soften the blow...