Word: toe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shares, amounting to a 59% controlling interest in Newsweek, passed to the trust. Eager to sell Newsweek, the foundation promptly, though privately, began hunting a buyer. Among the handful of serious bidders was Newsweek Board Chairman Malcolm Muir, 75, who hoped to enlarge his family's 13% toe hold on the magazine with the Astor shares. But Graham's offer of $50 a share (which was about 24 times the magazine's earnings per share) was $5 better than Muir's best, and Muir lost...
...neighbors, watching, make us toe the line...
...winkle picker* on the way out? In Manhattan shoe salons last week, style setters and trend diviners were claiming that the pointed-toe look was slowly becoming old shoe. Offering blessed relief to women, who for five years have painfully squeezed their feet into narrow, stiletto-heeled, pointed-toe shoes, is the radically different "chisel toe" look-long, flattened, square-toed shoes that bear more than passing resemblance to the bill of a platypus...
Creator of the chisel-toed footwear is Christian Dior's imperious impresario of shoe design. Roger Vivier, 50, the man who brought the pointed-toe shoe to the U.S. and whom many merchandisers consider the top shoe designer. Vivier shrugs off the complete style change between the two shoes. "After all," he says, "in geometric forms there is only the round, the pointed and the square." Inspiration for the new style came from a pair of 100-year-old blunt-toed shoes. "I hate reminiscence," says Vivier. "I did not imitate; I was inspired...
...England the winkle picker is an extremely pointed-toe shoe. The term is derived from the sharp pin used in eating periwinkles...