Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent role leave them free to cut Administration domestic programs as they see fit. Ike's ballooning sentences at press conferences, his occasional vaguenesses on the specifics of current Administration policy, e.g., disarmament, China trade policy, civil rights, give the President's foes new cheek, his toe-the-line supporters in the House and Senate increasingly frequent pangs of sadness. Last week the House Rules Committee cleared the Eisenhower school-construction bill for the floor and-for lack of a concerted Administration pressure-certain death...
...Standing toe to toe against the looming Soviet-satellite army of 175 divisions keeps the five-division U.S. Seventh Army in Germany on constant alert against the day the "balloon goes up" in Western Europe. Merely staying combat-ready in peacetime is tough enough, but the hard-training Seventh is plagued by an even tougher problem: one in three of its 165,000 tankers, atomic cannoneers and plain gravel crunchers should never have been sent overseas in the first place. Reason: they are "eight balls," mentally equivalent to sixth-grade schoolboys, a disciplinary headache to their commanders and a serious...
...rustic daughters of Roghudi could only sigh, and some among them hope that a day would come when handsome, dark-eyed Mayor Pietro Nucera might forget himself and take them by violence. In the harsh code of justice on the slopes of Aspromonte, the Harsh Mountains in the toe of Italy's boot, the act of rape is often the precursor of enforced marriage, and the young mayor with his flashing eye and dark, curly hair had all the earmarks of a guappo-a dashing and romantic figure...
...Toe to Heel. Following the maxim that offense is the best defense, the city-room Confederates aimed their heaviest salvos at Ike's and Monty's own military records. The Staunton, Va. News-Leader chided: "President Eisenhower may have forgotten his own Kasserine Pass defeat and the breakthrough in the Bulge; Marshal Montgomery his excruciating slowness in hitting the Germans after the initial Rhine crossings.'' Columnist Anthony Harrigan argued in South Carolina's Charleston News & Courier that Eisenhower was "not an actual battle leader [but] a sort of super military executive director...
Dandy Lines. In Manhattan, a class of 11-year-olds, asked by their teacher to write about "What Spring Means to Me," reported, in part: "Women have started to wear open toe shoes to let in the air." "Every time Spring comes around I see water pistols. All over, there are water pistols. You can't walk ten feet without getting squirted." "When spring comes I start thinking about summer but that's another story." "To me, spring means misery. It gets very hot in school. Another thing all the drunks come to Washington...