Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy's foot. The middle of the Calabrian peninsula was a high and rugged hump, with narrow plains running around its coasts. The hump, the end of the Apennines, continued straight up Italy like a backbone. Main trunk lines, perforce, trailed along the two coasts of the Italian boot and were vulnerable to air attack. For days Allied bombers had pounded Italian railways south of Naples, had blasted freightcars in clogged yards as far north as Pisa. This was strategic bombing designed to hamstring Axis troops in the south...
...holiday provides musical America with a richly burlesque little sheaf of songs, including numbers entitled Indelible You and Get Off the Pot, and a fine satire on Gilbert & Sullivan, complete with antiphonal chorus effects, entitled He's Not an Aristocrat. The composer's program notes, to boot, are irresistible...
...rail and road junction on Italy's Adriatic flank. Reconnaissance had shown that the Luftwaffe had dispersed a fleet of Junkers 88s across Foggia's main drome and ten satellite fields. A carefully coached armada of more than 100 Lightnings raced across the Mediterranean and the Italian boot, roared across the dusty plain around Foggia, at hedgehopping altitude, caught the Germans by surprise. Their strafing fire raked at least...
That blow was a single historic note in a thunderous Allied bombardment of southern Italy. From Naples across the shank of the boot and down into the heel and toe, U.S. and British planes sought out harbors and ships, rail junctions and trains, highways and trucks. More than 700 Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Wellingtons devastated Foggia (62,000 population), key to Italy's east-coast railways and roads...
Most effective and widely used device now is a deicer: B. F. Goodrich's "rubber-boot"-a rubber strip fastened in place along the leading edges of the wings. When the pilot shoots compressed air into the boot, it expands and contracts, the ice cracks off. But the addition of the rubber strip increases the wind drag on the plane, i.e., decreases its lift; the strip has to be taken off during the summer months to make it last even as long as two winters; repair jobs are frequently necessary on spots subject to severe strain. A ground check...