Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time it was a new kind of destroyer, faster by 25% than any of the 41-knot, steel-hulled speedsters the Navy is getting, and nimble-footed as a seagoing cat. "Skipper" Burgess had patented the design in 1937, had tested it, as well as he could without a...
Saratoga, danced in Manhattan by Leonide Massine's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, was Muscovite Americana, less pretentious than the Russians' earlier Union Pacific and Ghost Town. Jockeys and girls in hoop skirts footed it among the Victorian curlicues of New York's spa, while two males...
As the House of Commons prepared to debate the question in secret, most of British Labor supported Sir Walter's flat-footed stand. Behind him also were three Cabinet Ministers (Supply's Beaverbrook, Agriculture's Hudson, Mines' Grenfell).
Thyssen's first contribution was indirect -about 100,000 gold marks to Ludendorff for a Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the...
Think what that means, you 90 per cent of last year's upperclassmen who are still tied to the apron strings of Mother Fortune! It means that the College Graduate, a hitherto highly exploited commodity that used to drug the market a hundred and fifty thousand strong every year, now...