Word: toes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...halftime, thanks to a fabulous 52-yd. field goal* by Lou ("The Toe") Groza, the Cleveland Browns led the Los Angeles Rams, 10-7. A year ago, when the two teams played for the National Football League championship, it was Groza's unerring toe which won the game, 30-28, in the last 30 seconds of play. In this week's playoff game at Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, football history seemed to be repeating itself...
...Magsaysay, rugged, tall (5 ft. n in.), is a blacksmith's son from Zambales, a province in western Luzon. He has both Chinese and Spanish blood, and calls himself a mixture of Ilokano and Tagalog, which refers to the dialects his parents speak. He is a table-thumping, toe-tromping activist who would rather hip-shoot a gun at bottles tossed into Manila Bay than put away one of Quirino's famed two-hour breakfasts at Malacafian Palace, with pancakes, papaya and fried lapu-lapu (a choice fish). He lacks the usual Filipino impulse for orotund oratory, fancy...
...right half Latsi Berger, and substitute right inside Johnny Beer. In addition to these, right half Larry Leonard is all taped up after injuring his ankle in the Williams game, and reserve center forward Ed Seaga has a charley horse. Both should see limited action. Florin has an infected toe, Beer the remains of a stomach disorder, and Berger a twisted knee...
Bamu, a practical type, replied, "My brother Aliu has a bad toe." Bamu is contemptuous of her husband's pretensions, and apt to trot back to Mama's hut when he runs out of money. But Johnson loves her dearly. Even the thought of her makes him break into song...
...grow in it babies, babies made by my husband and me ... Can a putrefied Charlemagne or a mummified Pharaoh protect and love and guide a living child? 'My daddy's three thousand years old. Yeth, we go to thee him in the museum thometimes. We thee hith toe poking out of the bandage, just like my big toe' . . . I am already a craven prehistoric cave woman of 1951. Thank God. At least we're all five of us alive, 98.4 degrees...