Word: boot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could only sigh, and some among them hope that a day would come when handsome, dark-eyed Mayor Pietro Nucera might forget himself and take them by violence. In the harsh code of justice on the slopes of Aspromonte, the Harsh Mountains in the toe of Italy's boot, the act of rape is often the precursor of enforced marriage, and the young mayor with his flashing eye and dark, curly hair had all the earmarks of a guappo-a dashing and romantic figure...
...recruits a year ago, the top brass of the Parris Island training base have been quick to court-martial drill instructors accused of mistreating their recruits. Last month Corporal William R. Walsh, the eleventh D.I. charged within a year, was found guilty of illegally "touching" 18-year-old Boot David Lee Porter. Sentenced to 30 days at hard labor, fined $120 and broken to private, Walsh took his punishment like a Marine. But there was someone else at Parris Island...
...cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits no minors to race under its aegis, suspended Lance upon learning that he had fibbed about...
...Bonn, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who has pledged to field three of seven promised NATO divisions this summer, last week showed off the new German uniforms, almost identical with the army and Luftwaffe uniforms of World War II .The German army boot was back too, but this time with a difference. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss to an audience assembled to view the new uniforms, "these boots do not permit heel-clicking or the reverberating sound of marching. These boots are fitted with demokratisch-bürgerliche Gummisohlen [democratic civilian rubber soles...
Shaped like a thousand-mile boot lying on its side, with Jamaica at the top, the Leeward Islands at the heel. Trinidad at the toe, The West Indies unites...