Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some time ago you spoke of the difficulty night-shift workers have in sleeping in the daytime [TIME, June 15]. A black sock worn spectacle fashion should help (the toe over one ear, the top over the other-and the middle covering eyes and nose). It is cool, dark and comfortable...
...small boy in a tattered dhoti idly dawdled toe marks in the deep dust. Monsoon skies were slate-grey overhead. The oppressive heat gave added pungency to the smell of human filth in the Girgaun district of Bombay's slums. Shopkeepers moved listlessly; talk dribbled in the bazaars. Suddenly everything changed. Word sputtered from mouth to mouth that the British Raj had jailed Mahatma Gandhi...
...Cambridge, Mass., a couple dressed in traditional wedding finery (the bride complete with veil, bouquet, and toe-length gown) took a trolley car to their wedding at St. Anthony's Church and back again, gave their autographs to the astonished passengers...
...combat athlete's foot (dermatophytosis)-the itch caused by the toe-burrowing fungi dermatophytes which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...
...from New Zealand last week stumbled over that beautiful and dangerous phrase, "United Nations." Like many another man, stubbing his toe gave him an idea...