Word: toes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long-barbed durum wheat-the kind that is good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist...
...meat came off the bottoms of my feet, and all the meat came off my toes and the bones were sticking out." One day in February, a North Korean nurse entered his room with what looked like garden shears. She snipped off eight of his fleshless toe bones, leaving only the two great toes. "I broke them off later with my fingers," said Treffery...
Best Foot Forward. In Birmingham, William Duncan took his new power lawn mower out for a trial run, mowed off his left big toe...
...round of human experience. His themes are birth and death, the pain and joy of living and loving, animal vitality balanced against spiritual inner lights. At his weakest, he can and does riffle his images and similes like a cardsharp. At his strongest and best, he makes his poetry toe the line of his creed: "Man be my metaphor." In the 22 years since his first poem was published, Dylan Thomas has added mystic affirmation to his lyric rage. Almost as impressive as his growing to maturity is his growing acceptance and readership. Since Collected Poems was published in Britain...
...solid three months' practice on her diving to capture the championship of Laurel Beach (Conn.) from a far shapelier 18-year-old. Said Mary Jane: "They gave the cup to Ros for grit, not form." Learning the raptures of hard work, she plugged away at toe dancing until, after one long session, she could cry dramatically: "Look! My toes are bleeding...