Word: boot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above with nothing to do. And them, as if in answer to his prayers, an advertisement caught his eye. "Tour number 2, educational, Harvard, M.I.T., Radcliffe, Boston University, Simmons . . ." This is it, Vag murmured, enthused already. He could join in the Boston Christmas spirit and get educated to boot...
...battle after all. But when the division embarked for Europe, Brigadier General Dean hobbled away from the hospital on crutches "without much authority," and climbed aboard too. His leg did not heal for seven months, and Dean entered combat in France wearing slacks and a low-cut combat boot...
...combined move by Member of Parliament Bozsik, his left half and his center forward brought the center 20 yards from the English goal with the ball at his feet. He faked a left-footed kick, then drove the ball home with a hard-rising shot from his right boot. England's Goalie Gil Merrick dived like a swallow to block it, but it shot past him. By half time, Hungary led 4-2, and the Britons, who ordinarily muddle around midfield but can be counted on for hard kicking at the goal mouth, had obviously met their match...
Thomas E. Dewey decided that New York's Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks was unfit, because of his visits to imprisoned Labor Racketeer Joseph Fay (TIME, Oct. 12). Promptly, Dewey called a special session of the legislature to boot out Wicks as majority leader and temporary president of the state senate. The Dewey forces thought that they had ihe support of nearly all the 37 Republican senators. But Dewey's quick-kick attempt was blocked...
...Years. Hunched, acerbic ex-Premier Edouard Daladier rose from the benches of the moderate Radical Party. "If Germany prefers the European Army," he cried, "it is because she has the certainty of establishing her hegemony over Mitteleuropa, reconstituted by our efforts . . . The Russian soldier has never set boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier "The Man of Munich...