Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German right was scrambling up the Italian boot so rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, polished peacetime poloist (9 goals), second cousin of Winston Churchill, peeled his way through five weeks of boot training at Parris Island, S.C., got commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps...
...week the Allies rolled up the shin of the Italian boot, while the northern end of the main Italian battle line stood silent. The aim of Allied Commander Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander seemed clear: to push back the German right flank, smash into it with his troops at the Anzio beachhead...
...smashup of German communications by Allied airmen, before the push began, had worked a change in the Germans' will and ability to fight in their most competent fashion. There was also a well-grounded suspicion among U.S. officers that Field Marshal Kesselring may have been outwitted to boot...
Golden Corn. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, an R.C.A.F. flier complained of corns, was examined by a medical officer who found $2,000 cached in the sole of his boot...