Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hustling Heath. Billy Southworth's Braves didn't seem quite the pennant type, either. Said one rival National League manager: "They wait around until you boot a ball or make a wild throw, and then you're cooked. Not an exciting team to watch . . . looks deadpan. But it hustles." Southworth had kept them hustling, even after they had cinched the pennant, so as not to lose their fighting edge. Last week, hustling in a game with Brooklyn that didn't matter, hard-hitting Outfielder Jeff Heath broke his ankle sliding into home plate, and was lost...
...Stern gang, who haunt the Galina café on Tel Aviv's Herbert Samuel Esplanade, had been telling correspondents that they intended to deal with Count Folke Bernadotte. Posters appeared showing Bernadotte's gaunt figure, his hair flying, being kicked out of Israel by a huge boot. The caption read: "Advice to Agent Bernadotte: Get out of our country...
...intended) when your cartographer scrunched my native state down into the likeness of a run-down Oxford, with its western boundary at the northern end canted at an angle of S 8° W. Its true shape, of course, is that of a smart half boot, and the boundary in question runs due N & S. I am sure there is some hellish symbolism in this deformity, but I'm not smart enough to fathom...
...kind of painting, which put ideas ahead of emotions, was on the verge of obscurity for a century or more. The romantic French masters who followed him, from Courbet and Delacroix on, were apt to consider David more of a pedant than a painter-and a passionless clod to boot. They were wrong, as a huge David exhibition, the biggest showing of his work ever held, proved last week in Paris...
Cried little (5 ft.) Right-Wing Leader Giuseppe Romka: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Commtinists who -if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul." A voice from a back row broke in: "Not one soul, but three...