Word: toeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...carrier, sank a cruiser. Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians) "drove the British back from a threatened attack on important Italian coast positions." When night came, the British ran southeast and pursuing Italian units lost track of them. During this excitement, the Italian destroyer...
Gustafson, captain of the 1939 football team, engaging in his first year of Varsity baseball with the Quakers, has played only ten of his team's twelve games, a toe injury keeping him out of the other two, and has hit safely at least one in nine of those games. His only extra-base hit was a homer, in the season's opener with Cornell...
Gustafson, captain of the 1939 football team, engaging in his first year of varsity baseball with the Quakers, has played only ten of his team's twelve games, a toe injury keeping him out of the other two, and has hit safely at least once in nine of those games. His only extra-base hit was a homer, in the season's opener with Cornell...
Nazi Party, at whose instigation Jew-baiting and terrorization of non-Nazi Germans attained national proportions and Argentina's 203 German schools were made to toe the ideological mark. Sample of in struction in the Goethe School: Teacher...
...Philadelphia last fortnight a 13-year-old Finn, looking too tall for his bare knees and short pants, listened to Eugene Ormandy rehearsing the Philadelphia Orchestra in Jean Sibelius' surging Finlandia. Much moved, Finn Heimo Haitto (pronounced hay-moe high-toe) sat down and wrote his good friend Sibelius all about it. Last week the boy had more to tell the old composer. Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy...