Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People wondering how the campaign battle lines would shape got one indication from Wendell Willkie: that he wants to have it out, toe-to-toe, with Franklin Roosevelt. Twice last week, Candidate Willkie came out slugging. First blow was in reply to Keynoter Bankhead's suggestion that Mr. Willkie, his power-company past, the Republicans, and the boom-mad '20s were all tied up in one dirty package. Said Nominee Willkie: "I found myself in complete agreement with Speaker Bankhead in his condemnation of the speculative orgies of the 1920s. ... I have always thought that such speculation...
...Fleet and land-based aircraft can range far to sea, spotting and striking at any invader as close to his European base as possible. But while the islands make one of the world's finest strategic assets, they are also great potential liabilities. An enemy with a toe hold on the Caribbean not only might close the Canal and shut off the Fleet in the Pacific; by destroying the Canal he might also cut off naval elements in the Atlantic from the Navy's great base on the Pacific side of the Canal at Balboa. And while...
...carrier, sank a cruiser. Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians) "drove the British back from a threatened attack on important Italian coast positions." When night came, the British ran southeast and pursuing Italian units lost track of them. During this excitement, the Italian destroyer...
Gustafson, captain of the 1939 football team, engaging in his first year of Varsity baseball with the Quakers, has played only ten of his team's twelve games, a toe injury keeping him out of the other two, and has hit safely at least one in nine of those games. His only extra-base hit was a homer, in the season's opener with Cornell...
Gustafson, captain of the 1939 football team, engaging in his first year of varsity baseball with the Quakers, has played only ten of his team's twelve games, a toe injury keeping him out of the other two, and has hit safely at least once in nine of those games. His only extra-base hit was a homer, in the season's opener with Cornell...