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Word: booted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boot. In Lawrence, Kans., the Journal-World reminisced about Anastas Mikoyan's visit to the U.S., said he "hobnailed with movie stars, college students, and dyed-in-the-wool capitalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...wants the Berlin senate to examine how to get "rid of certain undesirable activities in the twilight zone of political propaganda." The spook business is causing dissatisfaction in East Germany, too, but of a different sort. Dombrowski's boss, Major General Karl Linke, has reportedly been given the boot for letting Dombrowski get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Siegfried's Journey | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...laconic parody called Gunshy. As played by Ben Gage, tall, broad-beamed Marshal Mort Dooley looked remarkably like Gunsmoke's tall, broad-beamed Marshal Matt Dillon. But unlike Dillon, Dooley is a businessman ("I own 37½% of the Weeping Willow Saloon") and contemplator ("This is Boot Hill-I like to come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke's Doc Adams), and loyal, limping Deputy Clyde Diefendorfer (Gunsmoke's Chester), Marshal Dooley watches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Parodies Regained | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...grass-roots political movement, so fervently supported that it survived ten years under a dictator's jack boot, last week smoothly propelled its leader into Venezuela's presidency. The party is the left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Victory from Underground | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...varsity hockey team will seek its third victory of the season tonight at Watson Rink against a Colby College sextet intent on raising itself by the boot-straps into the status of a big-time power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity to Meet Colby Six Here | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

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