Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toe Blake knows a little something about scoring goals in hockey games. As a player for the Montreal Canadiens, Blake led the National Hockey League in points (goals plus assists) in 1939. In 13 seasons as the Canadiens coach, he won eight Stanley Cup titles and shepherded the careers of Maurice ("Rocket") Richard, Jean Beliveau and Bernie ("Boom-Boom") Geoffrion. From behind the bench, Blake schemed to stop such high-scoring opponents as Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito and Stan Mikita. So when it comes to evaluating hockey's newest natural wonder, the New York Islanders' Right...
Thrusting out of the sea bottom, the hand on the sinewy forearm was reaching beyond the abyss of time. Two swimmers spotted it while diving off a beach at Riace Marina, a resort in Reggio Calabria on the toe of the Italian boot. Their find was not far offshore (about 325 yds.) or in very deep water (less than 26 ft.). But it turned out to be astonishingly distant in age: about 24 centuries, in fact. Experts quickly uncovered a 990-lb. life-size bronze figure of a warrior. Near by they found a second bronze of similar heft...
...mental age of a twelve-to 18-month-old child. This glum report is disputed by Jane Hoyt, 36, a self-styled nursing-home reformer who befriended Siebert four years ago. She says that the stricken woman can mouth the Lord's Prayer and play tic-tac-toe, and she insists that Siebert is progressing. Incensed by the August agreement, Hoyt obtained a temporary restraining order that directs St. Mary's to keep Siebert alive until State Judge Lindsay Arthur can resolve the dispute...
...boohoo is chastened. I am secretly pleased. At the end of the featherweight fight he leaves. He will go toe to toe with a urinal...
...beginning of the second act, never lets up, and the tightness of the audience-cast bond grows stronger. Eventually, the church on stage engulfs the entire theater. Preacher Gregory Van Buren and Alison Taylor bop and shout with a spasmodic liveliness that transforms the theater into a hand-clapping, toe-tapping revival meeting...