Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself in his palace at Teheran and put to shame the classic sulk of Achilles. It was reliably reported that a Cabinet Minister who ventured to pay a call on the Shah was flogged with the flat of the royal saber, then punted off the premises by the royal boot...
...London British public opinion grumbled that the royal bootsman should himself be given the boot. Increasingly fed up were the Allies with his shilly-shallying over a clause in the peace terms which called for delivery of all German nationals in his realm. One day last week the British expected to start 225 Nazis rolling from Teheran for internment in India; the Russians had earmarked 50 for Soviet sojourn. After 24 hours of diddle-dumpling run-around from the German Legation, the British received 72 prisoners, the Russians eight. The Allies threatened to get good & tough (i.e., to occupy Teheran...
Watching the new weapons perform last week, remembering that new U.S. tanks carry equally heavy guns and are well armored to boot, civilians asked: why not fight tanks with tanks? Answers: The "destroyers" use standard guns and truck chassis which are easier and cheaper to make than tanks. In some spots they can run rings around lumbering tank formations can be equally effective against enemy troops, truck convoys, fortifications...
...lies the next pier in the Pacific bridge - Guam, which Congress long refused to fortify for fear of offending Japan. Today Guam less than 1,500 miles from Japan, is being outfitted as another of the U.S.'s intermediate Pacific air stations, and an advanced Fleet base to boot...
...pound, a new eleven-year peak. Commodity price indexes paused on their upward flight, but briefly. Montgomery Ward's big fall & winter catalogue came out with 70% of the items showing higher prices than last spring, and a hedge clause on all prices to boot. Sears' new catalogue showed an average price rise of around 6%. Henderson, who has no political status that does not derive from the President, could do nothing without a law. To get a law, he needed outspoken Presidential support, for which he and his friends are pressing. But outspoken Presidential support...