Word: toe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurry. He yawns a lot, and he never stands when he can sit. He is taking five years to finish college. He has trouble keeping his weight down, and he still runs pigeon-toed-so much so that he is forever stabbing himself ("usually in the big toe") with his own half-inch-long track spikes...
...bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns with hopeless, timid lusts. He lingers before the posters advertising "Running Without a Stitch, a documentary record of the nudists...
...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shilli-toe, a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers...
...admits that he is personally prejudiced against women lawyers, suggests that such qualms today stem largely from the fact that men's egos are more easily bruised. Their resentment of female competition, he says, "might be fear of the embarrassment of being beaten by a woman in a toe-to-toe struggle. Men are the weaker sex in terms of pride. In medicine, everyone wants the same result. In the law, someone has to lose whenever a case goes to judgment." Women fare better in less strenuous appellate work, says Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court...
Odds & Symbols. Elizabeth Ashley got her first toe in as understudy to Barbara Bel Geddes in Mary, Mary. Soon she was all over the big TV shows, like Hallmark Hall of Fame and The Defenders. "The only person who ever believes in you is you, and I believed in me a lot," she remembers. Her first major Broadway chance finally made hay out of her belief: in 1961's Take Her, She's Mine, she turned the daughter's role into a Tony...