Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drops lower each month at about the time an ovum (egg) is released by the ovary, then rises sharply again, thus marking the most favorable time for conception. This is nonsense, snaps Dr. Edmond J. Farris-no M.D., but an anatomist (Ph.D.) who has trodden on many a medical toe with his hobnailed views...
...tardy guest-"use the waiting time to advantage . . . Let the jaw drop down until it feels about to crack. This relaxes the facial muscles . . . Bring the finger tips together at the base of the skull and lift hard, pulling the head up and stretching the neck muscles . . . Wiggle the toes inside the shoes. Limbering the big toe can do much towards improving the general feeling of well-being . . . Flabby buttocks have much the same effect on the body as a flat tire has on a car . . . pull them in and up . . . a dozen, two dozen times...
Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...
...whole idea was just plain silly. Last year he made a recording-he didn't know how to write the notes down-and sent it to a friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean set: "At first I thought it was crazy. Then it kinda irritated me." He rearranged it, added some notes and a little pep & polish. Sample of the finished product...
...company would barely permit I.C.I, to get a toe in the U.S. door: Arnold, Hoffman 1948 sales, biggest ever, totaled only $7,187,000, and sales for 1949 were down to $5,850,000. But Lord McGowan planned to expand his U.S. marketing facilities to handle some of the 12,000 products, ranging from dynamite to penicillin, made in I.C.I.'s 100-odd British plants. In Wilmington, Du Pont took the news calmly. Said a spokesman: "Du Pont has been competing vigorously with I.C.L in the British Empire, and it is logical to expect that in the British quest...