Word: bootheels
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...That reality has not escaped the foot soldiers manning some of Obama's most remote outposts. At a former beauty school in Sikeston, in the southeast part of the state known as the Bootheel, an Obama staffer picked up the phone recently and was asked what it's like behind enemy lines. There was a long pause. At last he said, "It's a tough state...
...apex that the possibility of a cataclysmic social implosion cannot be ruled out. Not that many years ago, Pyongyang still confidently spread the word that Kim's homeland was a paradise on earth and that South Korea was a brutally poor, miserable place under Uncle Sam's bootheel. "The game is finished," observed one South Korean official. Not only is the South's economy 14 times stronger than the North's, he pointed out, but "the ideological game is also over. The only rational way for the North is to cooperate, save face and gradually integrate...
...daring raid on court-protected property. Nonetheless, when he was sprung from jail on a temporary pass last week to testify in Washington on ways that farmers can be hurt by bankruptcy laws, Senators and Congressmen crowded around to shake his hand. To farmers in the dusty "bootheel" area of southeastern Missouri, and indeed to farmers all over the country, he is a hero, fighting a battle for the oppressed against unjust law. And what for? Soybeans...
...television age, Cryts knew what to do. He held a press conference in January 1981 to announce that if the beans were not turned over to him by Feb. 16, he would go get them. Some 3,000 farmers from Pennsylvania to California poured into Missouri's bootheel to help. On Feb. 18, Cryts led a caravan of 78 trucks, ranging from pickups to 18-wheelers, along Highway 60 to the padlocked elevator, where the group confronted a line of federal marshals and FBI agents...
...cruel commentary on the new morality in Alpha-Beta last week, but at least the outcome of that romantic fiasco stayed pretty much up in the air. The wind-up here is far less ambiguous: this Mr. Machismo stomps his liberated and true love's face in with his bootheel. Subtle, Chabrol, subtle...