Word: toe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman Erica Cheng played "a gutsy tournament," said Graham. Suffering from a toe condition, she nevertheless pulled out a three-set victory against Princeton's Kelly Portzbach in the third flight draw...
Perhaps there is a geopolitical reason for a SuperEurope to stand shoulder-to-shoulder--or toe-to-toe--with the United States. But the dream of a European superpower is confined to a few realpolitikers in European governments. It is not shared by ordinary citizens, who wish for economic growth, not geopolitical posturing...
...told a TV interviewer that the chances he would actually run were "very remote, not even worth talking about." His most zealous supporters, however, refuse to take what Perot now says at face value. Says Orson s followers, he said, would monitor the candidates to assess how well they toe the policy lines he has drawn. If Bush and Clinton both satisfy him -- an unlikely prospect -- Perot would stand down. If only one does, he might endorse that candidate. If they both fail his test, he implied, he might heed the calls from remaining fans to compete...
...member of the gang, which may be several dozen strong, gets a free swing at the victim; other times four or five members are assigned to conduct the beating for a set amount of time. Whatever the punishment, the results are strikingly similar. "They give you a head-to-toe, which means you get your ass kicked," says Frank Perez, program director for the Chicago Commons Association gang project...
...President and his successor, no individual's life was to be considered more precious than any other's. Patients with blast wounds or burns whose treatment was so time consuming that it would have been at the expense of others' lives were to be marked with blue toe tags and given no extraordinary lifesaving measures. The facility was equipped with a crematorium. Automatic weapons were stored at the site, and Bourassa says he would have implemented a shoot-to-kill order to prevent anyone not on the site's roster -- even family members of officials or locals -- from gaining access...