Word: toe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First in the alpine attack was coach Peter Carter'69. Carter once again showed the team how it is supposed to be done, snatching first place with his slippery style. Sporting green satin from head to toe, the gooey-haired Harvardian also laid undisputed claim to the gauchest get up of the granite state gathering...
...girls seemed a little amused by it all. One of her friends occupied herself by exchanging Chinese and English words with Shep Hoffman, a B.U. law student who was sitting next to her. When a teacher finally gave her a disapproving look, they switched to playing tic-tac-toe...
...want to go to the countryside to be a peasant," the one who'd been playing tic-tac-toe said...
More Shocks. The beatings went on for about half an hour. Then water was poured on the floor around me, a wire was fastened to the second toe of my right foot, and a spring-clip electrode to the nipple of my right breast, pinching so hard it cut the flesh. Trying to make me confess that I was a Communist, they resumed the questioning. Now my denials were met with shocks as well as fists. The voltage was successively increased, becoming so painful that I doubled over until I fell to the floor...
...reader may feel, is excessively rarefied. He can imagine that he is walking up a village street from his house, for instance, to the post office, but he cannot then imagine himself turning around and facing the same street in the opposite direction. Rather than pivot easily on toe and heel, he must with hideous effort swing his entire dream street, post office, taxis, stray dogs and all, 180° around on the axis of his own mad self. Eventually, obsession invades reality. He walks to the end of a real village street, cannot turn, and falls in a paralytic...