Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief of the largest military command in the world, spanning 85 million square miles and including the hot war in South Viet Nam. In midshipman days, quiet-spoken Admiral Sharp was tagged with the nickname Ole and he still carries it-along with a reputation as "the old-shoe admiral." But, says one fellow officer, "he has a voluminous memory, a mind like a sponge" and, when provoked, "can really explode." His specialty: providing clear, precise answers to complex problems...
...Negroes contributed key inventions to 19th century U.S. industrialization--for example, the mechanical laster that revolutionized shoe manufacturing...
Cheever's father, a model for Leander in the Wapshot books, was a shoe salesman-"a commercial traveler with a flower in his buttonhole," says Cheever. He had a way with and an eye for the ladies, did not marry till late in life. He was 49 when John was born. Soon thereafter he began to have financial trouble...
...champion of." Carefully attired in diplomatic black and surrounded by his ubiquitous Black Muslim advisers (wherever Cassius went, Malcolm X was sure to go), he strode boldly into the delegates' lounge-instantly creating what one observer described as "the biggest sensation since Khrushchev took off his shoe." Complained Turkish Ambassador Turgut Menemencioglu: "They're more interested in Cassius than in Cyprus." Delegates lined up to shower him with invitations to visit their countries. "We're proud of you. Come whenever you can," beamed Liberian Ambassador Christie W. Doe. "Thank you, sir," answered the pride of Louisville...
Benedictus' pilgrim is a bowlegged 22-year-old named Bernard Chanticleer who "lives by love but loves at random wherever his love will stick." He lives with his parents in a London suburb, and agrees to go to work as a shoe salesman in the big London store where his father is a department manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe...