Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that emotional reconditioning is just as important as physical toughening. When possible, convalescents are now housed apart, away from the sickroom atmosphere, allowed to wear uniforms, play games, watch movies and live a normal military life as far as their disabilities will let them. Exercises range from light finger-&-toe work to calisthenics (including push-ups), drill and outdoor fatigue such as gardening...
...scheduling order to which the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission reluctantly agreed. The order (which Charlie Wilson carefully called a mere codification of proved practices) specified the degree of control he would have over three classes of materials. It gave him kingly powers to shift war orders, make manufacturers toe his mark. But Charlie Wilson promised the armed services he would use the new powers only in an emergency and with their approval. Thus did he effect a truce with the Army & Navy...
...1870s P. T. Barnum picked up one Georgius Constantine, a Greek from Albania, not one quarter inch of whose body was clear of designs. Claiming that he had been covered from top to toe...
...Toe, meanwhile, right opposite the Met Theater, is one of the greatest trumpeters of all time, Louis Armstrong, and his orchestra. Starting February 28th. Lionel Hampton will play for what should be a very solid month...
Tableau. In Hillsdale, Ill., harried Farmer Arthur Ferkel stood with the muzzle of a gun under his neck, his toe on the trigger, threatened to press while a sheriff and his deputy tried to argue him out of it. He held the pose for seven hours before they won the argument...