Word: boot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Threat from Within. Rarely would a politician so intent on staying in power dare to leave home at a time when so much was being done to boot him out of command. Though most of the noise was coming from the extreme left and right, the real threat lay among men of Yoshida's own conservative stripe. Men like Ichiro Hatoyama of Yoshida's own Liberal Party, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the rival and equally conservative Progressives, were talking last week of forming a conservative coalition during Yoshida's absence, to force...
...want a 9 o'clock class the morning after a weekend, but those who dare have their pick of sparsely filled classrooms and some excellent courses to boot. Dr. Taubes, a visiting professor from Hebrew University in Jerusalem who seems to be giving almost every other course in the catalog this year, will lecture in Humanities 134, "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy." While this hour could be profitably spent by those concerned with academic freedom or Father Feency, care should still be exercised in picking a course given by an unfamiliar professor...
...time chasing a mirage. His Cabinet was howling hate at the French, his Foreign Office was split, his people resentful at being turned away unloved, unwanted once again. His opponents sneered that though he had virtually handed Germany to the West, all he had received in return was a boot in the backside...
...High-Boot Oceanographers. One result of this burst of activity was that Texas got a first-rate Department of Oceanography. Backed largely by oil money, the department was set up at Texas A. & M. Its students cruise the Gulf in the pursuit of science. These newly seagoing Texans talk and look like oceanographers from Massachusetts or California, but some of them wear high Texas boots while they probe the depths of the Gulf. The system most used for drilling in the open Gulf is a sophisticated outgrowth of the simple, pile-supported platform. Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston starts with...
...center of speculation since he resigned as Deputy Secretary of Defense, settled things this week by returning to G.M. Kyes, who had been general manager of the G.M.C. Truck & Coach Division, went back to a new and bigger vice president's job, and as a director to boot. In addition to bossing G.M.C. Truck & Coach, Kyes will head up G.M.'s Dayton operations (engines, accessories, etc.) and household appliances (Frigidaire and Delco...