Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When W. Averell Harriman succeeded Admiral Standley, Washington decided on a new deal, a whole new pack of cards to boot. Faymonville was relieved and reduced. Also relieved were Michela (reduced to Colonel) and Standley's former aide, Rear Admiral Jack Duncan. To Congress Cordell Hull proclaimed: "I am glad to say there is now in Moscow a highly competent U.S. Military Mission headed by Major General John R. Deane, [former secretary to the U.S. members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff]." Faymonville's job last week: temporary duty at the Texarkana Ordnance Center...
...Occupied Italy is under two regimes. The departments of Calabria, Lucania and Campania-the toe and ankle of the Italian boot-are administered by Italian officials responsible to the Allied Military Government. The Apulian provinces of Lecce, Brindisi, Bari and Foggia-the Adriatic heel of the boot-are ruled directly by the Badoglio Government...
...Allied trudge up the Italian boot had fallen behind schedule. Skillful, vicious delaying tactics had won time enough for the Germans to build a strong defense line across the peninsula at its narrowest (80 miles) point between Naples and Rome. Against that formidable barricade the British and U.S. armies lunged last week...
Coach Polly Guyda's second squad will meet Exeter practically intact as the unit that beat them last time. In the last game the Crimson booters held Exeter scoreless until the last ten minutes, and the boot authorities look to them to repeat...
...week's end the Eighth had consolidated its hold on Termoli. One hundred and thirty miles across Italy's boot lay the hills of Rome...