Word: toes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn medicine show about Kefauver's approach-neither high road nor low road, but side-of-the-road. No one but Estes would pause to cut a hole in his sock because his toe hurt ("Gotta give it some air"); only Estes could stand in the Janesville, Wis. public square, beside a flower bed vivid with petunias and marigolds, and beneath a dingy World War monument, look into the inscrutable, tooth less faces of a small group of old people and murmur that...
...they knew in advance that they could not repeat last year's upset of the Cleveland Browns, the College All-Stars loafed through the 23rd annual preseason charity football game and took an embarrassing 26-0 pasting from the pro champions. High scorer: Cleveland's Lou ("The Toe") Groza, who booted four field goals and two points after touchdown...
...stubbed little toe-the result of indulging in the unusual pastime of trying to place-kick a hefty chunk of cinder block-caused University of Washington Sophomore Anne Quast, 18, considerable pain, but she limped through the 36-hole final of the women's Western amateur championship at the Guyan Country Club in Huntington, W. Va. to beat Defending Champion Pat Lesser...
...water. Not ten feet away was the glistening, brown back of a great fish." The shark returned. When the officer kicked and thrashed, it sometimes veered away. On other passes it took a piece of the officer's left hand, then of his left arm. Soon his big toe was dangling; a piece of his right heel was gone; his left calf was torn. At this moment, the officer sighted a passing ship. In his frantic efforts to attract attention, he did not notice that the shark was chewing on his thigh...
Poems in the Throat. Garbed from head to toe in black ("I am probably the most covered-up singer in the business"), with her straight black hair hanging to her waist, she chanted the changes on blighted love, nostalgia and despair in a husky contralto which ranged from a whisper to a raucous shout. Such personages as François Mauriac and Françoise Sagan dashed off songs for her. Sartre wrote that "in her throat she has millions of poems not yet written." When she took to the stage (in Anastasia) in a straight dramatic role, Le Monde...