Word: latchetted
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...Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose...
British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain pulled a string, the string released a weight, the weight hit a plank, the plank moved a rod, the rod tipped a latchet, the latchet released a spring, the spring opened a door and a ball began to roll...
...Latchet. The rod hit the latchet, which was in the shape of a smart German rejoinder that the demilitarized Rhine zone would be kept demilitarized, but that any question of the Polish boundary was out of place in a proposed treaty dealing with the Rhine frontier...
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