Word: booted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persuade him to order his troops back from the front-line positions where they have squatted for two years. Army officers, bitterly resentful that Franco was throwing away their bloody-won victory, carried out their coup, then gave him first a chance to change his mind, and finally the boot...
...Moscow, Dictator Joseph Stalin was pleased to designate Flyer Sigismund Levanevsky as the first man, when the time comes, to try the flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole base. Lithe, taciturn pilot Levanevsky is a boot-black's son who fought with the Red Guard in the War, first made news when he flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow...
...wing deicers* are usually removed from U. S. airline transports during summer. Last week all wing deicers were off, but this time there was an added reason for their removal-they have been causing trouble on the new Douglas DC-38. On one American Airliner last month the rubber boot split, on another a section of the wing's skin crystallized and tore away. These incidents were minor, but enough to cause a Bureau of Air Commerce request that all present deicers be removed from DC-38 and improved to meet the greater stresses imposed by this biggest...
Because Adolf Hitler has long understood that he cannot do without miraculous Dr. Schacht, who alone seems to be capable of keeping German economy from falling apart, left-wing Nazis have given up their attempts to boot him out of office. Dr. Schacht in turn has learned not to annoy Nazi extremists unduly. He had the memorandum mimeographed, sent copies to Nazi bigwigs, other bankers, manufacturers, without comment other than a request for their personal opinions. That done Dr. Schacht stepped into a plane and hopped quickly to Brussels where he was elaborately welcomed by King Leopold, the Governor...
...Scandinavian monarch is greeted by his subjects with no servility, no boot-licking but with the affectionate bonhomie that a Protestant layman might show to an amiable Bishop of his sect. Last week Denmark's giant-tall King Christian X, on one of his daily horseback jaunts through Copenhagen's busiest streets, was not surprised when a passing truck driver waved him a cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed...