Word: toe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Durrell was feeling (as his brother, the logodaedalist novelist Lawrence Durrell, might have put it) both phthisic and etiolated. But before long Durrell was again at peace, sleeping under his Land Rover, tormenting a 20-ft.-long bull sea elephant into a cinema-genic rage, using his own big toe as bait to lure a rare vampire bat. The author is a zoophile who tired several years ago of catching animals for other people and, as he related in A Zoo in My Luggage, set about establishing his own zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey...
What does a man do who is hounded by his creditors and tired of his wife? In the port of Reggio Calabria on Italy's toe. he sells his wife...
...believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after if it has only one great page in it; we must search for fragments, splinters, toe-nails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul...
Your claim that "the pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor 'made a fortune amputating little toes" [Nov. 10] is a ridiculous fabrication. How dim-witted do you think your readers...
...longtime fashion dictum, verified daily in millions of beauty parlors, that great beauty requires great personal suffering. By that standard, there should be nothing so lovely as a woman's feet. Through the ages, female toes, insteps and heels have been pummeled, prodded and ultimately propelled into shoes that resemble the human foot purely coincidentally and only occasionally. The pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor made a fortune amputating little toes, gradually gave way to a rounder toe before blunting off altogether into this year's square look. Once into the shoes...