Word: booting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer and crawl back to Washington from his Texas ranch. It was better this year than last, when he broke an arm trying to catch one of his cows. Now the lucky statesman was suffering only from bee stings-four on one foot, from a bee in his boot...
...boot came from the constituency of Pontiac, a huge district in the mining area of western Quebec. Only once in 30 years (in 1930) had Pontiac ever voted anything but Liberal. But last week, in a by-election to fill a vacancy caused by M.P. Wallace Reginald McDonald's death, Pontiac turned the Liberals out. The winner was a Social Creditor, Real Caouette, 29 (pronounced...
...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...
...brought disaster to Mikimoto. B-29s leveled his big Tokyo retail store, strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...
...captain. Though they didn't know it, they were lucky in a way to have him. He gave them a focus for their resentment. The captain's chief competition came, for a while, from a young ensign fresh from midshipman's school. This boy, the "boot ensign" who took "indoctrination" seriously, was a luckless type in the Naval Reserve. Author Heggen writes of him sympathetically...