Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special refrigerators in each room went on the blink; the rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world's biggest hotelman, was ready to open his newest and plushest hotel: the $17 million, 450-room Beverly Hilton. Beamed Hilton: "This will be the biggest hotel opening in the history of the business...
...gambling Las Vegas, he played one nickel in one slot machine. It was, he said, a ritual that he performs each time he goes to Nevada to watch A-bombs - "dipping my toe in the water at a famous bath...
...this ethic when an opponent like Mr. Buckley takes his turn at the plate. One example--and there are many others--of the former characteristic is the Liberal hue and cry, usually pursued to a sickening degree, whenever Joe McCarthy was alleged to have stepped on a pink toe. An example of the latter characteristic is Mr. Gwirtzman's report on Bill Buckley's lecture. Mr. Gwirtzman tried his best to discredit the seriousness of Mr. Buckley's intent by inflating a few casual remarks about who would or would not shake hands with whom to the status...
...Costume. Inquiry revealed that Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place...
...might seek treatment by a doctor versed in acupuncture (TIME, June 2, 1952), in which special needles are thrust into the body at a specified angle and to a certain depth, and in surprising places considering the complaint (to cure headaches, the needle may be thrust into the great toe). Sometimes combined with acupuncture was cautery: searing the skin with burning wormwood leaves...