Word: shod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salazar's execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting Balilla-like uniforms, were marching in the wake of Salazar's blackshirt-type Legido (Legion), which gave the stiff-arm salute and chanted: "Who leads? SALAZAR...
There were 30-odd somewhere inside, but for a long time nothing happened. It takes time to gather rescue crews. It was noon when helmeted, heavy-shod men began going in, laden with masks, tools, equipment. When the first crew came out again, black-faced and exhausted, the word they carried...
...conference chair he squirms, gestures, listens closely (he is slightly deaf), continuously shifts his small, well-shod feet, which usually end up perched on the table. The afternoon clicks by with the same production-line regularity. By 5:30 p.m., he is ready to leave for home with a bulging brief case under his arm. Usually, after dinner with his wife, he works for a few hours. He is in bed by 10 p.m. Two weeks of each month he usually spends in Detroit, hardly stirring out of the grey walls of G.M.'s building there. (He even sleeps...
Soon tanks rolled up the beaches, supplies piled up. Barges were coming in to Japanese jetties now, landing the troops dry-shod. The enemy backed up before a smartly executed amphibious assault...
...stone's throw from the bandbox grandstand, fires burned and horses were shod in emergency blacksmith shops (it takes from two to three hours to shoe a harness horse: each shoe is put on at a different angle). Harness makers, like ambulant country storekeepers, set up business outside their trailers. Bearded drivers displaced Empire's familiar, flashy midget jockeys in white duck...