Word: booted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principle of Dr. Cueto's capillary massage was identical with a boot-shaped vacuum machine used to treat such diseases of the feet as gangrene, Buerger's disease, chilblains...
...Premier, nervous Mr. Constantine Demerdjis, grew more alarmed than ever as he read in General Kondylis' newsorgan: "The new Government rests on a basis from which premiers have fallen and kings been overthrown!" Nonetheless George II set his big jawbone. Instead of convening Parliament and challenging it to boot him off the Throne, His Majesty dissolved Parliament without permitting it to meet last week, ordered for Jan. 26 an election. Elections in Greece usually return the government that runs them...
...keep spare mattresses in the basement corridors to use as cots for those temporarily incapacitated during house dances. It will be noticed that the mattresses are no longer in use, nor have they been for some years. This would indicate that the situation has improved. Should any extra-heavy boot be used to boost John over, the fence when he is already being ushered ceremoniously, if slowly, out of the yard gate? Guy Garland...
...gentleman with the 12 -gauge double-barrel shotgun. He is right where he belongs - with his posterior perched on a bench. With those shiny, tight-fitting riding boots I'll guarantee that if he is foolhardy enough to venture "up the trail," he'll need someone to carry him home. That type of boot is made for riding and not for walking...
Naturally no thinking man sees in this bill the black boot of tyranny which is about to stamp out our time-honored liberties and carry us back to the dark ages. Nevertheless, in the present state of fear and trembling, such a measure, futile as it may be, sets a dangerous precedent which conceivably may prove the inaugural address to a regime of genuine oppression...