Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandaged. He had thought to beat the alarm and urge relentless war; he found himself soothing the wounded or silently watching the dead. He could no longer endure the poppy-show goddesses and the pretty blue and gold interior of the Capitol because he was filled from top to toe with scenes and thoughts of the hospitals. He was proud when the doctors told him he had saved many lives. With an air of redis covering something that he had always known, and finding new confirmation for a faith that he had never lost, he wrote that the American soldier...
...Occupied Italy is under two regimes. The departments of Calabria, Lucania and Campania-the toe and ankle of the Italian boot-are administered by Italian officials responsible to the Allied Military Government. The Apulian provinces of Lecce, Brindisi, Bari and Foggia-the Adriatic heel of the boot-are ruled directly by the Badoglio Government...
...hospitals, with Dr. Rusk in charge (TIME, April 26). It now affects about 60,000 men in 259 hospitals. Convalescents have made thousands of plane models, practiced sending and receiving radio code while still in bed, planted 200 Victory gardens, studied 50 languages and dialects, done exercises graduated from toe-wiggling in bed to ten-mile hikes with full packs. The hospitals find that under the A.A.F. system 1) 25% fewer men have relapses; 2) convalescence from certain acute, contagious diseases (e.g., virus pneumonia, scarlet fever and measles) has been...
...here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...Huon Gulf. His airborne Australians attacked inland. His seaborne Australians landed on the coast above Finschhaven, with mortar fire and bayonet established a bridgehead and seized Finschhaven airport. At week's end the fall of Finschhaven itself was imminent, and the Japs were reduced to a few last toe holds in eastern New Guinea...