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Word: toe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fumetti magazines rarely pursue such Biblical story lines, but from the strap to the toe of Italy's boot they are all the rage. Each week some 4,000,000 Italians, mostly women, pay an estimated $385,000 for the latest copies of Dream, Eternal Passion, Sun in My Eyes, My Woman, Grand Hotel and dozens of other fumetti publications. Fumetti magazines have also proved popular in other Latin countries: the fumetti-like Nous Deux (We Two) has the largest weekly circulation (upwards of 1,700,000) in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Puffs of Smoke | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...people come to learn. Students from Maine to California flock to this Athens on the Charles to learn about everything from the battle of Thermopylae to the psycho-dynamic theory of prejudice. But do they come only to learn the T-formation, the squeeze play, and the step-over toe hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Problem of Coddled Athletes | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...banty rooster in a barn lot full of Percherons," he says. "I said, 'Boys, let's be mighty careful about stepping on one another.' " But caution was never Hoosier. His all-out kicks at New Deal and Fair Deal "regimentation and extrava gance" won him toe hold enough in the national G.O.P. to give a practical political push to the campaign of volunteers that got Indiana's Wendell Willkie (I.U. '13) the 1940 presidential nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HOOSIER POLITICIAN | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Another rapidly growing problem: the in-fighting between the Pentagon's ARPA and the civilian-controlled National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ARPA's Johnson recently stomped on NASA's big toe by publicly proclaiming the broad details of NASA's upcoming man-in-space Project Mercury. If anyone can survive the built-in hazards of the job, walk a straight line through the service detours and still know a scientific toe when he sees one, it is Herb York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Man for the Job | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

However the shelf may be employed, its full utilitarian potential certainly should be exploited. Embarrasingly enough, the Square now has a form to which some function must be fitted. There's no reason why Harvard Square, like any other square, should not toe the modern American line. No matter how ugly it is--if it works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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