Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pierre Laval did not laugh. He knew that ballyhooing Pétain would not win over the French people as long as their country was ground under the Nazi boot. He knew that all France's workers could not sate Hitler's rapacious appetite. If Hitler won, Laval would probably disappear, like Austria's Schuschnigg, in favor of a German Gauleiter. If the Allies won, Laval could expect to be hanged at least, possibly drawn & quartered by Frenchmen...
...prove that his promotion was no mistake, Harvey displayed an unexpected talent in the afternoon practice drill when he answered a call for a place-kicker and promptly lofted his first boot well into the end zone. A little more of that and he may prove a successor to Hank Vander Eb as a specialty...
...member of Wendell Willkie's party (who preferred not to be named) told the story in Ankara. He got it from British officers in Cairo. They got it from captured German troops. The story: dour, boot-tough Marshal Erwin Rommel was ill, had returned to Germany already, or was waiting to be relieved of his command. An Italian report put Rommel in the Stuttgart Tropical Disease Clinic, sick abed with malaria...
...schemes too. In Kansas City, a staggered work-hour scheme is calculated to give the Kansas City Public Service Co. the equivalent of 42 new busses; Indianapolis Railways (controlling all local transportation) has slashed the number of stops 40% to 2,700, dropped or shortened seven feeder lines to boot. The Cleveland Transit System recently hitched 31-passenger trailers to regular busses. In Washington, transit bigwigs tested a new device: the "standsit" seat. Spaced ten to 14 inches closer than regular seats, they will increase bus and trolley seating capacity...
Even if arrangements and soloists were not enough, I'd disqualify Miller purely on the grounds of spirit. The band puts on a good show, waving those horns around on "In the Mood," but Lunceford did it much better, and made better music to boot. The men play crisply and cleanly; there's too much perfection as a matter of fact. But none of it adds up to spirit...