Word: toeing
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Prince George, youngest son of King George V: "I underwent an operation to have my two little toes removed. I had been afflicted with 'hammer-toe'-a shortening of the tendons which causes the little toe to curl up and is very painful in walking and dancing, of which I am very fond...
...matter of a sure eye and a sound heart and it will be a lucky bulldog who does not find that the only way to cross John's goal-line is on the toe of John's boot...
...Genoa conference have been set at rest by the news that the Russian Ballet is to take part. Certainly if the Russian nation has a leg to stand on, that leg belongs to the Ballet. If the Bolsheviks wish to bring up the value of the ruble, they must toe the mark while the rest of the conference is enjoying itself...
...incomplete assimilation of too much sauerkraut, is now found to have resulted from these cowardly assaults. "How", the Germans ask, "can our stolid folk be expected to equal in thought-production the more active minds of our enemies?" If one of our brave boys thinks that his toe hurts him, how can he know that it is only the "wish" of someone far away, perhaps across the channel. The use of propaganda is denounced as immoral and inhuman...
...loosest and most ragged variety, fumbles, five in all, occurring at crucial points in the conflict. Besides this, the aerial attack of Coach Fisher's players, which heretofore had managed to bring victory, was broken up by the defensive play of the Southerners and it was only the reliable toe of Pfaffman which brought to the University a 10-7 victory by means of a perfect drop kick...