Word: boot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tickle youngsters all the way up to teen age, and the lyrics should amuse the small fry jaded by the old nursery rhymes. Best by far: the old woman who feels the pinch of a one-room shoe and moves with all 33 children into a three-room army boot...
Terrell was willing until Ali, known by his local draft board as Cassius Clay, was re-classified 1-A in February. It dawned on the challenger that Ali, who can't go on to graduate school or join the Peace Corps, was headed for boot camp and the title would be up for grabs...
...mile off Taranto, a fishing village on the instep of the Italian boot, the water was opalescent last July, as it always is when the Mediterranean sunlight hits the white bottom ooze and is reflected and refracted up to the surface. Thirty feet down, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, Master of Quincy House, sometime archeologist, onetime boxer and parachutist, and would-be aviator, was scuba diving...
...administration has worn a crisis air ever since. Last week, his tenth in city hall, was no exception. Starting with a virus infection that kept the mayor in bed for two days, it ended with a new rash of charges that Lindsay is ruthless, power-hungry and inept to boot...
Writing to Ravel. She is, in short, the acknowledged queen of spy story writers, and a handsome queen of great charm to boot. Possessed of a Scottish burr and a Glasgow University master of arts degree, she married Gilbert Highet, an Oxford don, in 1932. Five years later, Highet was invited to lecture at Columbia, and the Highets moved to New York with their three-year-old son Keith, now 32 and a Manhattan lawyer. The Highets were so taken with Columbia and New York that they decided to remain; they became citizens...