Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...savage blast in the Liberation Army Daily against the now banned Unrequited Love, the regime also signaled its intent to make liberal artists toe the party line. In the first place, the commentary charged that the script was rife with "anarchy, extreme individualism and bourgeois liberalism." It even took aim at the movie's recurrent image of flying geese in formation-a sinister symbol of emigration from China. Furthermore, it said, the gloomy picture that Unrequited Love drew of the Cultural Revolution besmirched the party's leadership. Said the commentary: "Criticizing mistakes of the party is not patriotism...
...ball game for obscurity. The Yale baseball team punished three Crimson pitchers to the tune of seven hits and three walks, and the Harvard fielders chipped in with three errors to give Darling, the finest college pitcher in the East, an 11-run lead before he put toe to rubber. The Elis held on, of course, taking a 14-2 decision in the opener of yesterday's doubleheader and riding Joe Impagliazzo's four-hit pitching to seal the nightcap, 4-2. What began as a weekend of promise on Friday has, two rain-days and two losses later, turned...
...through the windows glaring orange out of a hundred majestic black bastions, the committees are seen as they come calling, catching sophomores just accidently attired from top to toe in immaculate tweeds, and Exeter yearbooks displayed with casual prominence...
...there looks up. He is of indeterminate age but clearly senior bearing. He smiles slightly, then turns down the volume of an old radio that is playing a familiar fragment from Mouret's Symphony and Fanfare for the King's Supper. He crosses his legs, letting the toe of his bench-made oxford dangle a little above the floor and occasionally-at moments of infrequent agitation-allowing it to graze the surface of the carpet underfoot...
When Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...