Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walking heel-&-toe, British style, one can move twice as fast (a mile in 6 min., 30 sec.) as with an ordinary gait and two-thirds as fast as the best mile runners...
...paintings have the quality of forms remembered, this was a clearer and more solid memory. The black skirt of one girl and the orange jacket of the other were definite and strong notes in the composition. And not only were the figures classically balanced but their lackadaisical, toe-swinging pose was sharply observed and evocative...
...Matmata Mountains, M. Daladier and his official escort reviewed a formidable parade of fighting men and equipment: white-robed Spahis, galloping on their small Arab horses, black Senegalese bands playing trumpets and fifes, camel corps with both officers and men barefoot, guiding their awkward mounts by pressing the big toe against the camel's neck. Curious nomadic Bedouins watched the strange proceedings...
...Henry VIII. The script, by Bartlett Cormack, is suave enough to make the implications of its story acceptable to U. S. censors. Good shot: the beginning of a profound change in the relationship of Ginger Ted and the lady missionary- when she removes a splinter from his toe...
After three weeks he cuts a section of tendon from a toe or wrist, transplants one end inside the fingertip, ties the other to a notch in the steel rod, gradually withdraws the rod through the finger, pulling the new tendon into the sheath-a process like that used by any woman in pulling an elastic through a hem. Finally...