Word: toeing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Annals of Surgery last week, Drs. Vilray Papin Blair and Louis T. Byars of St. Louis, Mo. told how they made a finger out of a toe. The patient was a pretty two-year-old girl who had accidentally lost the top joint of the middle finger of her right hand. It was not easy...
First the doctors flexed the child's right knee, bound her forearm to her leg with adhesive tape and tied her hand over her foot. Then they cut her second toe two-thirds of the way around, so that it opened on a hinge of live tissue. Then they fitted the bones together so that the last joint and a half of the toe capped the second joint of the finger. Finally they peeled the skin off the finger tip and joined it to the cut end of the toe, carefully matching the tendons and stitching them together...
...Navy is no less hard at work at its inner defenses along the Inland Passage. For if Kodiak and Dutch Harbor are well defended an invader is likely to make his first thrust there. With a toe hold in Alaska's Panhandle he might end the supply lines of the northern bases while he strengthened his position for raiding against northwest U. S. Big Navy base in the Panhandle will be at Sitka, but other U. S. bases are being set up at Juneau and Ketchikan. A few weeks ago the Indian inhabitants of Metlakatla, on U. S.-owned...
People wondering how the campaign battle lines would shape got one indication from Wendell Willkie: that he wants to have it out, toe-to-toe, with Franklin Roosevelt. Twice last week, Candidate Willkie came out slugging. First blow was in reply to Keynoter Bankhead's suggestion that Mr. Willkie, his power-company past, the Republicans, and the boom-mad '20s were all tied up in one dirty package. Said Nominee Willkie: "I found myself in complete agreement with Speaker Bankhead in his condemnation of the speculative orgies of the 1920s. ... I have always thought that such speculation...
...Fleet and land-based aircraft can range far to sea, spotting and striking at any invader as close to his European base as possible. But while the islands make one of the world's finest strategic assets, they are also great potential liabilities. An enemy with a toe hold on the Caribbean not only might close the Canal and shut off the Fleet in the Pacific; by destroying the Canal he might also cut off naval elements in the Atlantic from the Navy's great base on the Pacific side of the Canal at Balboa. And while...