Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier. At the Second Battle of Bull Run, Jackson struck with sledgehammer force against an unsuspecting Federal column miles behind the front. Instead of disintegrating in a rout, the Federals slugged it out toe to toe for two hours, and Jackson's own beloved Stonewall Brigade lost a third...
Italy, from top to toe, is a vast museum containing some of the greatest monuments of Western civilization. But it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most ill-kept storehouses of classic art. ¶ In Venice, the parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos...
...only 5.5 on the Richter scale, just one-thousandth as strong as the big 1906 disaster. Property damage-broken windows, cracked walls, crumbled brickwork -reached into the millions of dollars. But there were no deaths, and no really serious injuries (a woman dropped a coffeepot on her toe; a man broke his foot running downstairs at City Hall). There was some hysteria as the city went through a whole series of shocks (including the minor aftershocks), but San Franciscans-who cherish their earthquakes as they do their cable cars-generally took the day in stride. Perhaps the most characteristic...
...concentrate instead on developing raw materials. To conserve the current supply of basic metals and coal, he wants to set up procurement priorities that would give the first choice to heavy industry. In hope of winning the support of businessmen, Villalbi has even promised that they will get a toe hold in the basic industries owned or controlled by the government...
...dean. Reminiscing about some of the unusual problems he had to face, he mentioned the stealing of the Sacred Cod and the time two Californians got lost in the Maine woods. He also told of the time several Harvard men photographed the stolen Yale Bulldog licking hamburger off the toe of John Harvard...