Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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busters, nabs, fuzz, Charlie Goons, Charlie Nebs, blue boys, bluebirds, do-right daddies. Policemen. shoe. Plainclothes detective. snifter. Police dog. rosewood. Policeman's nightclub. fall. Prison term. charge account. Bail bondsman. woogy. Quarrel (verb). gin time. Time to fight. But life is not all sorrow: fox, flavor. Pretty girl. ace boon coon. Girl friend or buddy. short. Automobile. ragtop. Convertible. stallion. A man who is handsome or husky or prosperous; also, a buxom woman...
...British army), a newly outward-looking Ireland has acquired international influence out of all proportion to its size or political power. In the United Nations, the nonaligned Irish -led by Ambassador Frederick Boland, who was President of the General Assembly in the time of Khrushchev's shoe-banging tantrum-are universally respected. In the Congo, where 5,000 Irish troops have served-and 26 died -with the U.N. peacekeeping mission, their probity and discipline command the admiration of Africans and Belgians alike. The experience has added a new term of abuse to the Irishman's copious vocabulary...
...were driven to accept battle was wonderfully favorable to us . . .It was in form an elongated and somewhat sharpened horseshoe, with the toe to Gettysburgh and the heel to the south. "Lee's plan of battle was simple. He massed his troops upon the east side of this shoe position and thundered on it obstinately to break it ... Unflinching courage and complete discipline of the army of the Potomac repelled the attack . . . The marvellous outspread up on the board of death of dead soldiers and dead animals-of dead soldiers in blue, and dead soldiers in grey-more marvellous...
...Lindo dam goes into operation late this year. When it is completed, Honduras will have more power than it can use in the immediate future. Neighboring El Salvador, the driest country in Central America, needs power for its growing textile, food-processing and shoe industries. The plan is to build a $3,000,000 transmission line from Rio Lindo to El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador -thus giving the Salvadorans electricity and the Hondurans the paying customers they need for further development...
...pens signed the Japanese and the German surrender agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...