Word: booting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Carens, of the Traveler, claimed "sampling reaction leads me to the conclusion that Harvard graduates are eternal optimists. There is general unanimity that the sons of Jawn Haw-vud are facing their greatest opportunity in years to pull themselves up by the boot-straps...
...South Side, a Hungarian carpenter named Felix, his wife and two children settled down in a small apartment furnished by friends and relatives. Soon Felix got a job in a furniture factory at $1.25 an hour. Like many of the new immigrants, the couple still so strongly showed the boot marks of Soviet terror that they could not shake off their tenseness or wariness, kept their window blinds drawn, reporters at arm's length. Said a Hungarian friend, who arrived in the U.S. in 1948: "It takes about two years to realize what America is like. Not the things...
America may look askance at France and Britain for their North African show of force but has it forgotten why Hungary is under the bloody Russian boot today? The American people may detest colonialism, but they voted four times in a row for Roosevelt am his cohorts of so-called liberals, who did more to establish Communist colonialism in the West than any other influence outside Russia. The thought was denounced as immoral at the time, and those who saw in Russia the danger of the future were branded as fascists and almost traitors...
...first wife (Egypt's Princess Fawzia, divorced by the Shah in 1948 for her failure to bear him a son), will soon be married. Her fiancé: U.S.educated (University of Utah) Ardashir Zahedi, 28, son of Iran's ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi who, after helping to boot weepy old Mohammed Mossadegh from the premiership in 1953, was later himself edged out by the Shah amidst charges of corruption in Zahedi's regime. The Zahedis are not exactly paupers: young Ardashir, now serving as civil adjutant to the Shah, has already heaped some $50,000 worth of baubles...
From the ten, on first down, Botsford faked two hand-offs, and with a perfect boot-leg motion, fooled the whole Tiger defense. He then lobbed a pass to Hooper, all alone in the end zone. Joslin's kick was wide...