Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy more complete even than Jane's famed Fighting Ships.* The public grabbed copies for a first look at many heretofore unheard-of-ships. The Navy, whose own information is strewn about in mimeographed charts, blueprints and cumbersome data sheets, ordered copies by the gross to instruct boot and admiral alike on what's in the Navy. Navy men tell Fahey that he saves them a lot of fuss, filing and paper shuffling...
...Cuba's drink is that the U.S. refuses to say what it will do about next winter's crop. Cubans, however, see the rosy side, are pretty sure that the U.S. will not only buy most of the crop but will pay higher prices to boot. Another trouble is the shipping shortage, which makes it hard to import anything on which to spend the island's new wealth. The 2,500,000-plus tons of sugar now piled high in Cuba for lack of ships to carry it 200 miles to Florida are a sign in reverse...
Shut the Door. Navy exams, as described by Lieut. Herbert I. Harris of the Newport Training Station, are equally strict. Recruits come before the psychiatrist when they are worn out from physical tests, completely naked, identified only by a mercurochrome number on their chests. To a tired, jittery "boot," a session with the psychiatrist is like walking the plank. Wary examiners, said Lieut. Harris, are suspicious of boys who speak up first (normal boys are silent until the doctor questions them), those who fail to close the door, or fling down their papers on the table. But regional differences, said...
...Seal, recently told his Bristol constituents: "The Germans are getting uneasy at the militant spirit of the British and American people in this matter of a second front." The Italians, who know that some of the most militant Allied strategists propose to establish the second front on the Italian boot, are patently most uneasy...
Leverett: Don Johnson, stroke; Bill Eustis, 7; Henry Bigelow, 6; Doug Burns, 5; George Crane, 4; Bob Boot, 3; Bob Neiley, 2; Will Hunnewell, 1; Don Quimby...