Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effectively ended Dizzy Dean's career with a line drive smash that broke his toe? (Hint: it happened in the 1937 all-star game...
...course, there were those who refused to toe the line. Many writers went into hiding in Vichy France, publishing underground newspapers and organizing active resistance. Some, like Jean Paulhan, editor of La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, lived ambiguously, playing both sides of the game. During the occupation. Papulhan stayed on at the helm of the German-controlled Revue and at the same time was an active member of the resistance...
...Great Gretzky ("It's embarrassing. If I had my choice, I wouldn't use it") is a straw-haired, blotchy-skinned kid, barely 5 ft. 11 in., barely 165 Ibs., barely 21 years old. He blushes and scuffs his toe a lot. In 65 years only two players had ever scored 50 goals in a season's first 50 games; this year Gretzky scored his 50th goal in the 39th game, and last week he reached the alltime record 77th goal (and the 78th, and the 79th) with 16 games to go. It is more than just...
...tragedy is that the President's ideological rigidity seems certain toe choke off the promising long-term features of his new Caribbean policy. For the next 12 years, almost all basin exports to the United States will be duty-free; as a result, most experts agree, the President's initiative will likely stimulate the creation of many new products. And by calling for increased technology transfers and the teaching of marketing strategies. Reagan just might insure the region's future competitively in agriculture and industry. Additional U.S. financial assistance will probably bail out countries like Honduras and Costa Rica, enabling...
...internationalization" of Harvard started in earnest after World War II. Improvements in transportation made Cambridge more accessible toe foreign students and professors. At the same time, there was growing sentiment around the country that America had a crucial role to play in the world' isolationism had become a thing of the past. Harvard's curriculum began to reflect this new attitude as more "international" courses appeared in the catalogue, and already existing offerings took on global dimensions...