Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first phase of the Battle of Italy had ended. Between them, the Fifth, pinning down the main German force in the lower peninsula, and the Eighth,* pounding up the toe, heel and shank, had consolidated the first bridgehead on main land Europe. Now the second phase could begin...
...effort to attack at Kharkov had been wiped out and the Nazi armies flowed around Stalingrad. Rommel had rolled the British back from Bengasi and was beating against the gates of El Alamein. On the other side of the world the U.S. fought frantically to keep a toe hold on a 90-mile-long island in the Pacific...
Removals. In Rosalia, Wash., H. C. Roberts, who had already got rid of a corn by cutting off his little toe, got rid of another by cutting off his other little toe. In St. Augustine, Fla., somebody finally got the nickels from a Florida East Coast Railway pay toilet by making off with the door...
...averaged 20 wins a year in five and a half seasons until a line drive in the 1937 All-Star game broke his toe. Diz rested for a fortnight, then tried out a new delivery that favored the bad foot. "There was a loud crack in my shoulder, and my arm went numb down to my fingers. . . . Ol' Diz's great arm was never goin' to be the same...
Against this confused citadel of the Axis troops, the Allies, at week's end, struck another blow. Commando trooops landed and Bagnara on the west side of the toe, joined another force that had landed at Catona. Behind Allied planes that bombed and strafed enemy strong points, Montgomery's men cautiously advanced around the ball of the toe...