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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: It Was Sickening to Watch ... | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Dreams & Blood | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bonuses and Bubbles | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...observing a plaster foot with the big toe in the middle: Looks better there. Why not change the feet and keep the shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scolding Show | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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