Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only a panel of female judges would see each contestant in a bathing suit; the girls could appear before male judges only when properly clad in veil and head-to-toe burka. The beauty sponsors even promised that when Miss Pakistan reached California, she would be in a good position to say a few words in favor of Pakistan's claim to Kashmir...
...robustness of his health was established last week by a two-day, head-to-toe physical examination conducted by some two dozen of Walter Reed's top doctors and technicians and the President's personal physician, Major General Howard McC. Snyder. At its end, in a startlingly frank and detailed report that more than anything else illustrated Dwight Eisenhower's insistence on the people's right to know, they gave the world almost an organ-by-organ look at what they had found (see next page...
...cold-eyed, paunchy Chervenkov proved a little slow to toe the new post-Stalin line, slow to apologize to Tito and to repudiate "the cult of the individual." Three weeks ago the Bulgarian Politburo charged him with "violation of legality in the trial of Kostov," pronounced Kostov posthumously innocent, and freed his accomplices. Last week Chervenkov's comrades deposed him as Premier, relegated him to one of four Deputy Premiers. His successor: dandified Anton Yugov, 52, a home-grown hatchet man who, as Interior Minister in 1945, admittedly executed 2,000 political enemies. Tito's Yugoslavs will presumably...
Karl Marx and the Inexorable Laws of History came through on the Business School Field Saturday as the Princeton lacrosse team put the varsity under its big toe in the first period and kept it there all the way through a 15-2 win. The loss was the Varsity's tenth straight of the season...
Soon after their outfit gets a toe hold on the Italian boot, Paratrooper Lieut. Sam Loggins tabs his radioman T/5 Britt Harris as a grandstand soldier. Against Loggins' orders, the corporal guides some medics into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...