Word: booted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, the huge inpouring of outsiders to man atomic-energy laboratories, air bases, rocket test stations and other defense installations and industries has greatly watered down the Spanish influence -so much so that six years ago fiery Major General Patrick Hurley, an Anglo, and a Republican to boot, missed defeating Chavez by only 5,000 votes...
...over 50: from seven to 84 days for light work, 20 to 180 for heavy. By contrast, patients in the Air Force zoomed back into the wild blue yonder only 13 days (average) after appendectomy, 17 days after hernia repair. Naval recruits went back to the full rigors of boot training only nine to 32 days after hernia surgery. Pro football players (Philadelphia Eagles) have returned to gridiron mauling 30 days after appendectomy with no ill effects...
Died. Giuseppe Romita, 71, post-World War II Italian Cabinet minister, anti-Communist Socialist who once shouted in a party convention: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Communists, who-if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul," later led an intraparty revolt against Communist ties; in Rome...
...President Wilson was in an idealistic swivet. In Kennan's view, he cherished an "image of the Russians as a simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations...
Fort Devens will play host to the current juniors, who hope to improve on the performance of last summer's group. The Army's training program for the ROTC students will include M-1 rifle practice, real boot camp food and instruction in bed-making and the displaying of equipment...