Word: boot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leading the pack, of course, was Hastings-which, as its local newspaper proudly pointed out, "is better known internationally than almost any other town." To give the anniversary its deserved importance (and attract 250,000 extra tourists to boot), the Hastings Town Council spent $16,800 building a triple-domed exhibition hall called the Triodome. Principal exhibit of the Triodome was supposed to be the great Bayeux Tapestry, ordered up by the conquering Normans shortly after the battle. But the tapestry is the property of the town of Bayeux in Normandy, which refused to give it up, and so Hastings...
...ease, but his ability to put the ball into the coffin corner was almost professional. His first punt yesterday was 51 yards, followed by a 30 yarder which he placed out of bounds on the Holy Cross 10-yard line. And then he painted his masterpiece--a 46-yard boot which was downed at the Cross two-yard line...
...Kremlin watchers, things were looking up. First the All-Union House of Fashion, arbiter of Russian couture, lift ed hemlines above the knee, and along with those modest Russian miniskirts took Courrèges to boot. Then the State Committee on Prices hiked the tags on a wide array of heavy industrial products, with increases ranging from 35% on metals to 75% on coal. Finally the Agriculture Ministry announced a bumper grain harvest for 1966 of some 160 million tons, the largest in Soviet history and up 40 million tons over last year's yield...
...front; some bastard of his-or some other kin-was always there to look after the fighting. The best of the lot of left-handed royalty was the Due de Vendome, who "at the age of 54 looked like an old, fat, dirty, diseased woman" and was syphilitic to boot ("his nose quite eaten away"), though on the battlefield he raged like a lion...
...Mecham, "the Red Terror," accounted for all three Eliot House touchdowns, two of which came on passes from Reed. Reed also connected with Kim Prince on three occasions. Jamie Niven delivered the crowning blow to Winthrop by finally mastering a point-after-touch-down with a soccer-styled boot...