Word: toe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mississippi Negroes stuck a tentative toe into white waters fortnight ago on Biloxi's sun-drenched beach along the Gulf of Mexico. Led by Dr. Gilbert Mason, 31, Biloxi's only practicing Negro physician, 80 Negro men, women and children waded into the gulf, were driven off by a gang of club-wielding, chain-swinging whites. The Negroes have not been back. The new wade-in assault, said Wilkins, will aim at segregated, tax-supported beaches and parks in eleven states along a 2,000-mile coastline curving from Cape May, N.J. to Brownsville, Texas...
...talked his six-year-old sister Lois Jean into lugging around his heavy golf bag, went out one morning and broke 100 for the first time. "They wouldn't believe us," he recalls, adding with a slightly acid touch: "And I was putting them all out that day, toe." Palmer also fell into the habit of acting out a dream of the future by describing his play aloud to an empty green: "Arnold Palmer now lines up a putt on the 36th hole. He pauses. The gallery is quiet. He hits it and it's in. Arnold Palmer of Latrobe...
...would have been a hard pill for the President for anyone to follow Foster, because there was a very close relationship there." Moreover, Herter's first year began somewhat awkwardly. Informed by Ike that he had been chosen to succeed Dulles, Herter quickly had the head-to-toe physical examination requested by the President, was embarrassed when the appointment was delayed while the results (satisfactory) were flown to vacationing Eisenhower in Augusta...
...punishment, say union men, is tough but necessary. "It may seem like bullying," argues a Trades Union Congress official, "but it is also a fact that society has some sort of right to impose pressure on a bloke who won't toe the line. You get a form of anarchy if people strike off on their...
Dressed in black from head to toe, sipping dry sherry and thinly warmed by two small electric heaters, Author Compton-Burnett speaks with dry severity of her books, classing them as "between novels and plays." None have been staged, though six have been adapted for radio. She writes in dialogue because "it just came naturally-I think in conversation." But she will not tolerate "frivolous" topics, as, for instance, the date of her birth ("Such matters are gossip...