Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like Father, Like Son." Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken), an awkward, befuddled but eager son of suburbia, is the "hero." Given a rousing send-off by fellow citizens of Oakridge, Calif., he marches confidently off to war, only to be ignominiously bounced out of Marine boot camp because of his chronic hay fever. Burning with shame, he thinks of his father, Hinky Dink Truesmith, a hero who died gloriously at Belleau Wood on the day his son was born; of his mother, so proud and radiant, weeping on the station platform; of the brass bands tootling and banners proudly...
...meant deliverance-to onetime university professors who swept the streets, to onetime symphony musicians who played on the corners for scraps of food, to the dead-faced people who thronged the churches. In the ghetto there was scarcely anyone alive to hope. For deliverance from the grinding boot of the Nazis, Warsaw had waited longer than any other capital of Europe; it was nearly five years. The Polish underground was doing what it could to help the Russians, and it so notified Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Premier of the London Polish Government, who flew to Moscow last week to TIME, AUGUST...
Graduation, transfers, and greetings from the President have bil the team, but without disastrous effect. The chief losses include Wally Chubb, quartermiler. who graduated last month, and John Kent, half-miler, who is now in boot training...
...fluid, disordered German retreat up Italy's boot suddenly hardened. Five new divisions, one each from Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, the Balkans and North Italy had joined the rearguard defense...
...Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. Colt, as the biggest of all prewar U.S. gunmakers, had a backlog of $30,000,000 in orders when war came. And stockholders remembered that in 1917 Colt had paid a fantastic $60 cash dividend, later tossing in a 100% stock dividend to boot. But in March 1944, Colt stockholders got another kind of shock. For the first time in 27 years, Colt paid no dividend. On April 20 came shock No. 2. Up to board chairman went Colt's ailing president, Samuel M. Stone, who had driven Colt with a tight rein...