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Word: toe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junior varsity basketball team made Northeastern's J.V. toe the line in its own gym last night, defeating the junior Huskies, 77-72. The win put the Crimson's record at 4-1 this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Cagers Outlast Huskies; Homms Sparks a 77-72 Victory | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...illegally each year is that most existing fences have been knocked down, shot full of holes or simply hauled away. Indeed, the new barriers might have gone up unnoticed had not the builders boasted that "anyone barefoot" seeking to climb over the razor-sharp wall would "leave his toe permanently embedded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL NOTES: The Tortilla Curtain | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Coming off a tie with Princeton and an Ivy league record of 1-2-1, the Crimson gridders must feel like the boy who stubbed his toe--too big to cry but too hurt to laugh. What's more, the Brown eleven that comes into Harvard stadium this afternoon tied for the league lead will not be dispensing lollipops...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Big, Bad Bruins: Crimson Faces Brown Today | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

...Said George Norris, Houston manager for Anchor Post Products, Inc., which will build the fence for $2,015,000: "It's the heaviest construction I've ever seen on a fence." Because the grating is razor sharp, Norris added, anyone climbing the fence barefoot would "leave his toe permanently embedded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Justice's Wall | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...blame the Government for a lightning strike and a corporation for a wind gust, it is easy to imagine tracking almost any mishap to some distant agency. Should owners of property on which there is a public passageway prohibit barefoot pedestrians or else assume liability for every stubbed toe? Must the manufacturer of a knife clearly label it as dangerous or else be vulnerable to damages for a kitchen worker's sliced finger? Could the designer of a dam be blamed if a voluntary swimmer drowned in a lake thus created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Of Hazards, Risks and Culprits | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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