Search Details

Word: toelessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...tube top to go clubbing. Then Lila gave me...this,” Perry says, holding up a black and gold piece of cloth. “It’s a dress,” Cherry clarifies. “Though our friend calls it a toeless sock...

Author: By Margot E. Kaminski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Sincerest Form of Flattery? | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...lines, only in smaller sizes and pastel colors. Today virtually every athletic-footwear company, from Nike to Reebok to New Balance, is competing to offer women shoes designed expressly for them. Not only are the heels tailored for the narrower female foot, but the shoes may come backless or toeless; they may be styled to resemble Mary Janes or bowling shoes; they may be made of woven or mesh fabrics; and they come in a panoply of colors. They are sturdy enough to wear while smacking a tennis ball and chic enough for post-doubles cocktails. The majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Sneakers? Not. | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...widely held belief that bipedal dinosaurs stepped toe first when walking, a conclusion bolstered by the fact that their tracks usually include only the front part of the foot and the three toes, with the heel generally faint or missing. At Paluxy, some prints are oblong and toeless. True, they are 15 to 20 in. long, but, argue creationists, they could conceivably have been made by biblical giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Defeat for Strict Creationists | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...Grand Rapids and a longtime friend of the family who had flown down in the middle of the night to do what he could. At 6:30 a.m., Susan and Michael arrived to cheer their mother up, but she was already in fine spirits. Mrs. Ford laughed about her toeless white operating-room socks. Said she: "This will be a new item for Women's Wear Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST FAMILY: Betty Ford: Facing Cancer | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

Faceless, armless, toeless, sexless and potbellied, the figures could be store dummies, moon men, dolls, Oscars, or medical textbook diagrams. Ever since their creator, Sculptor Ernest Trova, 39, presented them as "falling men" on rotating wheels and bolted six together into a giant humanoid child's jack for a Famous-Barr department-store exhibition in St. Louis in 1964, the debate has raged over what the little men mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculptors: The Uses of Ingenuity | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | Next