Word: toes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since D-day had Europe seen such an American invasion. From Land's End to the toe of Italy, tourists established beachheads at bars and hotels, and wave after wave of reinforcements came ashore...
...American class which gets a five minute handicap includes bikes with coaster brakes and without gear shifts. Starting two and a half minutes before the Racers the touring class covers cycles with gears and handbrakes, but with no toe clips dropped bars external gears or super thin tires any of which will put a bike into the racing class...
...toe of Cape Town's Table Mountain, that looks toward the point where the royal blue waters of the Indian Ocean merge into the Atlantic, a huge and stately house rears its white bulk among acres of hydrangeas. The house is Groote Schuur (Great Barn); once it belonged to famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes; Rudyard Kipling used to winter there. Past its well-stocked deer park one morning last week sped a shiny. Packard sedan, followed by a Ford. Shortly after 11 a.m., the Packard drew up outside South Africa's Parliament House in Cape Town six miles...
...Toe. The studio's top scriptwriter, T. E. B. Clarke, bases most of his ideas on the Ealingite premise that cinemagoers like "mild anarchy-the outrageous, childish things that we all wish we could do but can't." He wants the man in the audience to say: "That's me. I really am rather funny, aren't I?" Then, as one ridiculous situation follows another, the reaction should be: "I know this couldn't happen, you know it couldn't happen, but wouldn't it be nice if it could...
...Supposing he was all along planning a huge robbery? What would he do? What would I do myself?" But a touch of sanity usually pays off: "We avoid those comedies where everybody is mad. We try to keep our feet very much on the ground-or at least one toe...