Word: boot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also, she was smart, knew Washington and the intricacies of bureaucracy from a hitch in the U.S. Information Service, and had a flair for leadership. She helped set up the Marine Corps' first boot camp for women, at Hunter College, New York. After that she commanded a battalion, and served on the staff of the general in command at Quantico. When the war ended, she was 29 years old, a major, and was commanding 2,600 lady marines (as many as are on active duty in the whole corps today) at the Marine Air Station at Cherry Point...
...most tempting plums in the Republican election year grab-bag was tax reduction. Eisenhower promised progressive cuts in income taxes, natural death of the excess profits tax, and a balanced budget to boot. The money for this financial revamping was to come mainly from a reduction in the out-sized military budget...
...icily courteous meeting with the young Marquess and his mates, Herr Lieberkuehn stuck by the law: the pink coats, hounds & horses must go. That night the Life Guards bundled up a supply of fireworks, threw in a few Very pistol flares to boot, and descended in the dark on Herr Lieberkuehn's house. It was a spectacular show, though it scared the maid half to death: she thought the Russians had finally crossed over from the East-West border only 20 miles away. Unfortunately, Herr and Frau Lieberkuehn were away at the movies, so the lads had to come...
...Southbound Working Group was a kind of boot camp for potential Red bu reaucrats, and for a political innocent like Liu, it turned out to be quite a school...
...line. Running into the same kind of opposition (a total of 48 yds. through the hard-tackling Wisconsin line), Southern Cal turned to another football fundamental: the booming punting of Southern Cal's Desmond Koch, who broke a Rose Bowl record with one 72-yd. boot, averaged better than 50 yds. a kick...