Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brutal battle, head-to-head, toe-to-toe, a real slugfest, waiting for the knockout punch...
...right, and he could bring power to the stroke only with his arm. Bergelin?who had already cured Borg's tendency toward overly whippy wrists by going into a factory and designing a special, extra-heavy racquet?suggested a minor change: line up with the left toe pointing toward the base line. It was a 90° change of one foot, but it turned Borg's body square to his opponent, putting his toss in front of him so that he could use the full weight of his body to add power to the serve...
...Arkansas borders. But when a prisoner couldn't be controlled by beatings or chainings or bone-crushing labor in the flat fertile prison fields, the trusties used "The Tucker Telephone." They would take the offending prisoner to the infirmary, strip him and attack electrodes to his big toe and penis, which were wired to an old-fashioned rural telephone. By cranking the handle, the "operator" discharged six volts through the man's body. A "long distance call" could render a man permanently sterile, or insane...
...West, artists succeed or fail in the marketplace. There is no official line on art, in any useful sense of the term. But in the U.S.S.R., art must toe the ideological line. If dissident -which generally means "modernist" -artists are not persecuted as systematically as dissident writers, and fewer of them actually end up laying rails in Siberia or being shot full of drugs in KGB madhouses, this merely reflects the fact that art is not as forceful a channel for maverick ideas as literature. Nevertheless, state approval governs every aspect of the production, exhibition, sale and discussion of painting...
...love with a succession of heavy-duty Hell's Angels and being the kind of woman who will help anyone, any time, no matter what he has done. "The night of the arrest," she says, "I was vacuuming and trying to get a splinter out of my toe. I thought it was a bad joke, people out side shouting, 'Open up! Federal agents.' This big crowd rushed in. They took my wedding pictures and they thought the rice was dope. They threatened I would never see my daughter again unless I turned state's witness. Would...