Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davis pointed to an increase in shoe imports of over 400 per cent in the last seven years to support his contention that what the shoe industry needs is the maintenance of present tariff levels and the establishment of quotas for imports...
...case for the New England Shoe and Leather Association was presented by Edward L. Davis, secretary, who described himself as a hard-headed businessman. "We believe that we will lose much more than we will gain from the proposed act," he said...
...western suburb of Algiers called Bab-el-Oued (pronounced Bablouette by its 50,000 inhabitants, who are mostly of Spanish, Italian and Jewish origin), a district of dark, dingy bars and cafes interspersed with modern shops, movie theaters and banks. Huge apartment blocks climb the hills above the shoe and cigarette factories that employ many Moslem workers. Long a hotbed of pied-noir extremism, Bab-el-Oued produces leaders like ex-Cab Driver Jesus Giner, who swaggers about the Cafe des Trois Horloges with a posse of armed hoodlums and boasts, "Here, I make the law." On Thursday, the pieds...
...shined her sharptoed, spike-heeled shoe...
...What will Mrs. Grundy say?" worried Dame Ashby throughout Morton's play. For years Mrs. Grundy and grundyism were synonymous with conventional behavior. But when Joe Grundy of Pennsylvania became influential in U.S. politics, the word took on the new meaning of "high button shoe political conservatism...