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...hours after the original landings on Dday, we had a toe hold and it looked like a good one. But all hell broke loose before noon. From the north and from the south the hidden Japs poured artillery and 6-in. mortars into the marines on the beachhead. Nearly all our tanks were clustered near the black-ash beaches like so many black beetles struggling to move on tar paper. A few other chuffing monsters waddled up the steep incline toward the airfield, spouting flames now and then into the .pillboxes which were blended into the sandy approaches...
...hated stepdaughter. Cinderella's stepmother will not acquiesce in her ugly daughters' loss of a throne merely because their feet are outsize. With the practical observation that "when you are a Queen you will have no more need to go on foot," she casually lops off a toe or a heel to make the Prince's slipper...
...knack of piling on pressure at the proper moment makes a man like Hector ("Toe") Blake hard to beat-at hockey, poker, or a business deal. The Montreal Canadiens' veteran left-winger (and poker player) is old enough (31) by peacetime hockey standards to be heading for the minors, but he still has plenty of the know-how that brought him the point-making crown back...
...observing a plaster foot with the big toe in the middle: Looks better there. Why not change the feet and keep the shoes...
King's English. In Birmingham, the Southern Medical Journal printed Dr. Byron King's article entitled: "Lantzounis Periosteo-Capsuloplasty for Congenital Dorsal Sublaxation or Congenital Overlap of Fifth Toe...