Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second look, cautiously rated the race (which Goldwater won handily) a "toss-up." It missed Hugh Scott's Republican victory in Pennsylvania's Senate race, and Republican Senator John Bricker's defeat in Ohio. Getting right down to the congressional level, the Times stubbed its forecasting toe in some cases, e.g., in Michigan's Sixth Congressional District it predicted that Republican Charles Chamberlain (TIME, Oct. 27) would be turned out of office...
Minnesota: What began as a toe-to-toe shooting match turned into a hands-down victory for Congressman Eugene McCarthy, 42, who buried forever the legend that a Roman Catholic could not be elected to statewide office in Minnesota, rode the well-oiled Democrat-Farmer-Labor machine to a thoroughgoing victory over the Republicans' two-term incumbent, Ikeman Ed Thye...
Behlen, a self-taught engineer who never got beyond high school, wasted few ideas. While working for the Railway Express by day-and turning out metal toe-caps for shoes, dental bridge clasps, and clock hands for ice delivery cards in the family garage with his father at night-he noticed that egg crates were being ruined when pried open. He invented removable metal crate clamps that sold so well, for 32? a pair, that he set up a full-time business in a building he bought for nothing down. (He promptly rented out the upstairs for $40 a month...
...James Helvick is a nom de plume of Claude Cockburn (rhymes with toe-burn), British journalist...
Twenty-four hours after entering Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his annual head-to-toe physical examination, a ruddy, smiling Dwight Eisenhower-onetime victim of a heart attack (1955), ileitis (1956) and mild stroke (1957)-came out with the pronouncement from his doctors that he is in "an excellent state of health...