Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heel & Toe. The pre-invasion pattern was sharpest in the Mediterranean. Allied planes, sweeping up by day & night from North African and Sicilian bases, ripped Italy's communications below the Naples-Foggia line...
That blow was a single historic note in a thunderous Allied bombardment of southern Italy. From Naples across the shank of the boot and down into the heel and toe, U.S. and British planes sought out harbors and ships, rail junctions and trains, highways and trucks. More than 700 Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Wellingtons devastated Foggia (62,000 population), key to Italy's east-coast railways and roads...
...last week coasted high over the Messina Strait between Sicily and the Italian mainland on a mission of photoreconnaissance. The air was clear and still, visibility unlimited. Looking out, the pilot could see the length & breadth of Sicily and, on the other side, the full expanse of the Italian toe. Between the two, the narrow straits looked "so small you could jump across them-a blue ditch...
...your are ready for bed. Fall asleep. Dream of a Saturday Quiz. Take up your pencil. That's right. Now with deft, steady strokes, play tic, tac, toe on all the odd questions and tiddley winks on all the even ones. Who knows, you might even get the right answer, and besides, won't Dr. Tatum be surprised...
Boston bands take a turn for the humorous this week. The Tie Toe has sunk from Earl Hines to somebody with the unbelievable name of Stud Mosely. And the Ken, where no so many syllables of recorded time ago we heard Sidney Bechet, and J. C. Higgembotham, and Red Cless, and James P. Johnson, is featuring Sherman Kleeman's hand and a mysterious trio that not even the management knows the name of as yet. Sure it's funny. But, as Howard Mumford Jones used to say, not so damned funny...