Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observing a plaster foot with the big toe in the middle: Looks better there. Why not change the feet and keep the shoes...
King's English. In Birmingham, the Southern Medical Journal printed Dr. Byron King's article entitled: "Lantzounis Periosteo-Capsuloplasty for Congenital Dorsal Sublaxation or Congenital Overlap of Fifth Toe...
...ideals. Ex-District Attorney Tom Dewey, who had observed their mistakes, had another advantage-he had four more years of the New Deal record to throw at his opponent. In the last fortnight of the campaign he was fighting a cool, confident, hard fight, slugging it out toe to toe with the Champ. His fight-loving audiences plainly relished it whenever Dewey repeated: "Well, he asked for it-and here...
Senator Pepper is one Congressman not afraid to be wired for sound. He also advocates television (perhaps envisioning the toe-&-fan dance which Representative Dewey Short of Missouri performed on the House floor in the process of defeating a bill to establish a Bureau of Fine Arts). Says Senator Pepper in support of his bill...
...mile cross-country trip, he had been content to jab steadily, pushing the champ off balance, until Franklin Roosevelt came out with his old haymaking right hook. (TIME, Oct. 2). Even then, Tom Dewey labeled his own slugging back at Oklahoma City a "digression." But that toe-to-toe digression had brought Republican cheers. Republican ringsiders, who had sat on their hands while Tom Dewey endorsed New Deal measures, clapped, shouted and sent telegrams, demanding more of the same. Next night, on his homeward journey to Albany, Dewey abandoned his previous objections to barnstorming, was still happily "digressing," making back...