Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midway was so vast (986 ft. long) and so intricately divided into watertight compartments below the hangar deck that a boot sailor could be excused if he took days to find his way around. But the vastness of the flight deck eased the operations of Commander John T. ("Tommy") Blackburn's Air Group 74; pilots even approved the emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly...
...large part the attitude of many G.I.s, who swaggered about as though they were conquerors-and irresistible conquerors to boot. "They have merely taken the place of the Germans," was a common French pronouncement. Many troops being redeployed from Germany arrived with a German-inspired hatred of the French. In Le Havre, where some Frenchmen began carrying truncheons at night to protect their wives and sisters from G.I. insults, a young French girl complained: "I do not know why all Americans think that all French girls will make love to anybody. I think Americans can be nice if they...
Next day, in his office, the Mayor presented scholarships and instruments to 29 musical children, warned their parents: "Don't make them play pieces for company before they are ready." Saturday, after a final boot at Tammany and its candidate, O'Dwyer, he called it a week...
Because Gordon Richards did such things as ride twelve winners in twelve races, British bookies once balked at taking bets on his mounts. At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes. It was his 3,000th win in 25 seasons. (Britain's Sam Heapy holds the world's record, 3,620 wins; Johnny Longden leads all U.S. jockeys with...
...other an NMB mediator. Almost lost in the tangle was a rejected company wage offer which would hardly remind most onlookers of the sweatshop-as much pay for a peacetime 40-hour week as for a wartime 48-hour week, plus an average increase of about 10% to boot...