Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buse (a crony of many an avowed Communist in Wisconsin) tried a desperate maneuver. Violating a court injunction, he threw about 800 pickets in massed formation in front of some of the plant's gates. The stage was set for violence. On four afternoons pickets and cops stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out. Clothes were torn off, nonstrikers' cars tipped over. About 5,000 people, many of them high-school kids, came out to the Milwaukee suburb and joined in the fray; many of them threw rocks, tomatoes, oranges and paint bombs at pickets, workers...
Afternoon dresses (longer by an inch and a half) were beaded, tucked, draped, and trimmed for "hip interest" with peplums, bustles and fantail backs. Suits were cut away to swallowtails. Shoes were closed, heel & toe, in defiance of the American woman's recent preference for open shoes...
...Cleo, and toe of Bucky...
...rock at a greenhouse-if it was not too big a greenhouse. When he went to Washington, B.C. in 1936, he had a degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused Bobo Newsom, Detroit pitcher, of brawling in the Shoreham Hotel. Newsom offered to punch...
...responsible for giving the Jumbos a 12 yard deficit in the yards-gained-rushing department . . . He was immensely pleased with Bucky Harrison's work. Statisticians have figured it that Bucky kicked from placement a total of 16 times on Saturday--a round afternoon's work for anyone's toe. The day before he did all this he played a full game with the Jayvees as a quarterback. There he converted three out of four times against hapless Tufts...