Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mom. . . ." Stephen Burdette Smith had to lie about his age to get into the Navy back in 1919. He was just 16 when he went off to boot camp at Great Lakes. In 1927, at aviation school, he took his first uncertain solo hop. Fifteen years later Chief Machinist's Mate Smith flew off the Enterprise against Jap-held Kwajalein, and on June 3, 1942, worrying about a photograph he had meant to send to his wife, Smitty in an old TBD chugged into the Battle of Midway...
...resignation many weeks ago; it had been gathering dust on Franklin Roosevelt's desk. For her successor the President was looking for somebody who probably does not exist: a man who will meet the specifications of both A.F. of L. and C.I.O., and get by Congress to boot...
...spite of his seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may lack moral passion. But as clear exposition of an immensely complicated story, it is magnificent...
Crime-U.S. Style. The second Canadian and his U.S. partner were also deserters and were VD cases to boot. They were marched off to a hospital. In the best Hollywood mobster style, pals tried to rescue them. Disguised as MPs, armed with submachine guns, the mob might have succeeded if real MPs had not scared them...
...parking lot, then the owner of a car which he needs to make a getaway. With the unconscious driver in the seat beside him, Bill runs into a bicyclist, and police give chase. When the police car draws alongside, Bill swerves his car into it, wrecks his own to boot. Jane is hurt, the police unconscious, Bill kills the car owner (so the police will blame him for hitting the cyclist), carries Jane, her face so disfigured that she is safe from recognition, to a hospital...