Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swelling wouldn't leave War Date's sore knee in California this winter, she massaged it out with hands that had massaged wrinkles out of many a woman's face; 2) when she saw one of her horses limping, she decided it was because his shoe didn't fit-she ordered the shoe pulled off, proved to be right, and changed blacksmiths. What impressed people around the stable most favorably, besides the ability of her stable to win, was that she obviously loved horses. She never bets on her own horses, and rarely bets more than...
...turn over to Allied authorities when Japan surrendered. In the knee patches of a child's ski suit, inspectors found a wad of large-denomination U.S. bills. A woman's sewing kit concealed three whopping diamonds. A three-year-old's belt bulged with 21 wristwatches. Shoe heels and toothpaste tubes disgorged a torrent of foreign currency and jewelry...
Giuseppe was a changed man. One day this week, his shoe-button eyes agleam and his squirrel teeth clamped, Giuseppe stepped up to bat. A pitched ball hit him, but he spurned the umpire's offer to take first base. Then he banged out homer No. 14 high over the centerfield fence, 402 ft. away. Everybody was beginning to talk, too, about his superb fielding, running, throwing. Such spring training carryings-on were usually reserved for rambunctious rookies-not the great Giuseppe Paolo ("Joe") Di Maggio of the New York Yankees...
...Toes. In Springfield, Mass., when a postman injured his leg, fellow workers took off his shoe and sock, found his toenails red, his face redder. Smirking, he explained: "My wife did that...
...favor of a lady by telling the tale of a man who: 1) sliced off his nose while shaving; 2) dropped the razor, which cut off his big toe; 3) in his confusion switched the severed parts, so that ever afterward, whenever he blew his nose, his shoe flew...