Word: boot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would sound like hell if they had to name a building Fall Hall." As the patrol inched toward a helicopter pickup point, the Marines fanned out in a protective arc. Fall was walking slowly along the edge of a dirt road talking with a combat photographer when his boot came down in a high clump of grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even before they heard the explosion. Though a Marine patrol had passed safely through the area only seconds before, Fall's boot had come upon a buried land mine left by the Viet...
...boot its errors almost as far as its successes. There was the Bay of Pigs. CIA failed to interpret properly the consistent East German warnings that preceded the Berlin Wall. The agency made a foolish attempt to bribe security police in Singapore...
...Boot. The agency's overseas operations are diversified almost beyond belief. CIA men may control an entire airline (such as Air America, which runs cargo and operatives in Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam), a full-scale broadcasting operation (such as Radio Free Europe). They may pose as missionaries, businessmen, travel agents, brokers or bartenders. They may be seeking infinitely minute pieces of information by paying a paltry $50 to a Hungarian going home for a visit so that he will take a short drive out of his way to check on the number of Russian troops in Szekes-fehervar...
...when L. L. Bean was 39. The orphaned son of a Maine horse trader, he had until then bounced from job to job. But he was an avid woodsman, and in 1912, while trudging on wet, blistered feet through the forest, he suddenly hit upon the idea of a boot with a rubber bottom attached to a leather top. From that inspiration came the famous "Maine Hunting Shoe"-which a hunter, Bean later boasted, "might like better than his wife." Once in business, Bean gradually expanded into other lines, and his factory grew into a labyrinth of makeshift additions...
...striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...