Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toe to Toe. "Mrs. Ickes' husband" suddenly found himself boss of a $3,300,000,000 Public Works program. He was beset by fixers, agents, Congressmen. As well as he could-and he got pretty good at it-he repelled them. ("We have battled, toe to toe, with the avaricious and ruthless.") He presided with belligerent honesty over the Grand Coulee project, Boulder Dam, a vast $13,000,000 building to house his 4,686 Interior Department employes...
...explorers' engravings of Marquesas Islanders dressed from top to toe in nothing but elegant tattooed abstractions. The men excelled at tattooing each other, and the women (who had several husbands apiece) spent what little spare time they had weaving plain mats and baskets...
...Three. Three hours later Chrysler Corp., not wanting Ford to get a competitive jump, signed up with the union too. But the Ford contract was still the big news. Beyond the pay agreement, it had another important provision: the turbulent U.A.W. had agreed to make its unruly members toe the line. What the Ford Motor Co. had won, the others would soon want and probably get. But the troubles of Ford were still far from over...
Though he had two tough brothers, "Big Gangy" and "Little Gangy," Bummy took care of his own problems. When his opponents were too big he clouted them with a fearsome weapon-one of his mother's stockings with coal stuffed in the toe. For entertainment he dropped flower pots off fire escapes on passersby, and dodged the truant officer...
...years the cocky Canadiens have ridden high & mighty. Now, with few reconversion problems, they are still making hay with their high-efficiency first line of Maurice ("Rocket") Richard, Elmer Lach and Toe Blake (in nine games, 18 goals). Last week, the league-leading Montrealers buzzed by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who look good on paper but not on ice, twice walloped the seemingly irredeemable New York Rangers...