Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this toe-to-toe political struggle, George Craig clearly has the good wishes and the help, whenever possible, of the President of the U.S. As it did in the basement in the Saar, the presence of General Eisenhower in his camp gives Major Craig a great feeling of confidence...
...great moment for 39-year-old Roger. As a boy, under the nickname Bébert ("Dopey"), he had always been something of a joke. When he tried pole vaulting, the bamboo splintered. When he tried to throw the hammer, it fell on his toe. Next he tried marathon running, only to twist an ankle. "Poor Bébert," laughed the villagers of Favril, his boyhood home. They did not know that secretly Roger was reading up on sports, determined to become a champion. "Father," he said one day in 1946, "I'm leaving for Versailles. There...
...acrimony between the Radical Socialists and the M.R.P. was solved only when the M.R.P. got an L-shaped seating pattern whose toe extended leftward across the front of the Radical benches...
...tonight's game, Wilson agreed that his team will have to stop Columbia's phenomenal scorer Chet Forte (pronounced For-toe) if it is going to come anywhere near winning. "Forte is the second best college shooter I've ever seen," Wilson said yesterday. "The only better one I've ever seen was Larry Costello of Niagara." (Costello was Niagara's captain last season...
...paint would stay. They even tried sewing little numbered "running shorts" on them, soon discovered that clothing a wriggling toad in the dark, often in heavy rain and cold weather, is just about impossible. Finally, "with some reluctance." they hit upon the idea of cutting off a toe...