Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with an armored paw. The strength of his sudden assault, which backed British advance elements 145 miles up the Mediterranean coast, set Britain's desert staff officers harder than ever at a tough job: outthinking as smart and resourceful a general as ever put foot in a field boot...
...Greek actress is a combination to raise even the most imperturbable eyebrow. When the play is Ibsen's, the actress is Katina Paxinou, and the lines are streamlined in a modernized translation, the result is enough to raise the other eyebrow and a good round of applause to boot. Though in any production of "Hedda Gabler" Henrik Ibsen must remain the outstanding attraction, Mrs. Paxinou interprets the role with challenging individuality. Her sensitivity and restraint as the neurotic and theatrical Hedda prevent her overdoing a part that can be easily overdone. No doubt "Hedda Gabler" profits from the fact that...
...publicly deriding Panama as "under the Yankee boot," the Spanish Minister in Panama City, Jose Maria Cavero y Giocorroetea, Duke of Bailén, himself was booted last week. An executive order declared him persona non grata, asked his recall...
...Orleans. Another is a ruddy whoremistress who uses imitation gold dust in her hair and looks like a lioness. The third is a depraved Irish-French Baroness whose very touch, one is led to believe, can drive a man out of his right mind (she dabbles in sorcery to boot...
...clock on Sunday morning two British cruisers and two destroyers, steaming in darkness off the sole of Italy's boot, met what they were looking for. That afternoon a Maryland (Glenn Martin) reconnaissance plane had spotted an Italian convoy of eight ships with an escort of destroyers leaving Taranto bound for Libya...