Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From their New River (N.C.) boot camp, some 10,000 Reserves have gone to post assignments. Recruiting has been better than in some of the other women's organizations; the Marines expect to fill their modest quota of 18,000 without trouble...
...week's end the victors had pushed two miles above Ortona, were ten miles below Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular rail-and-highway to Rome. Theirs had been the most notable gain in another week of hill-by-hill advance up the Italian boot. Through dead Ortona, the Canadians trudged after the retreating, fighting Germans...
Last week the War Department gave harassed G.I.s better news than a 16-day furlough. The devilish leggings are on the way out. They will soon be replaced by leather combat boots ten inches high. The lower part of the boot is laced; the top part, into which the trouser leg tucks, is neatly buckled. Combat soldiers, long envious of the Germans' comfortable, homely field boot, thought it was about time...
...weather, worse terrain, water-bound flanks and skillful enemy delaying tactics had decelerated what first promised to be a climactic thrust up the Italian boot. It was also evident that the Allies intended to push no costly drive up to the Brenner gateway to Germany. The forces to battle through were needed in other theaters...
...film, Remember, she says simply: "Let's not." Pride and Prejudice was a harmless excursion into literature, but in the Garson career it was a round trip. Blossoms in the Dust at least surrounded Miss Garson with children, though they were other people's, and illegitimate, to boot. More important, it first mated this predestined dove with Walter Pidgeon. Blossoms was Miss Garson's first real hit as a leading lady. But where Blossoms fumbled for the Garson beam, Mrs. Miniver found it, and rode it into box-office history. Random Harvest rode it right...