Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Theatre of Operations, circa 1777. George Washington put a few of his men up in Hollis and Stoughton for a night or two then, and although nobody knows whether or not double-decker bunkes were used, it is a matter of record that 640 soldiers slept, to to toe, in each of the two buildings for some length of time...
...Verdict. Halfway through last week's doubles championships at Brookline, Pauline ran into trouble. Her big toe became infected, swelled up to twice its normal size. In the semifinals, teamed with Doris Hart, Pauline discarded sneakers, played in heavy woolen socks. They lost. (Osborne and Brough won their fifth doubles championship beating Mary Arnold Prentiss and Pat Todd...
...first war by being so insulting to two opponents at the same time that, after 45 minutes, they stopped to congratulate him on his virtuosity. His toughest battle was against the old Master, Lord Executor, until he found a fatal weakness to sing about: Executor's big toe had just popped out of his canvas sneaker...
...often in that last "formal" campaign. Whether Flynn will be called upon to handle the booting chores this fall, when the highly-touted Ralph Petrillo will be available, remains another of the little mystcries that will be solved when the season opens, but the knowledge that Flynn's right toe is ready for duty can't be giving Harlow any sleepless nights...
Alfred M. Landon, 58, an old hand at coming a cropper, nursed a broken toe after too much horsing around for one day. Alf was out for a canter along the railroad tracks north of Topeka when a train came around the bend. The rider reined in, and his horse started up an embankment, then fell back on the Landon toe. The train roared...