Word: boot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William John Haley, 62, ninth editor of the Times and a loyal Tory to boot, is determined to show that his paper is harnessed to no party. He is even more determined to restore the Times's reputation as the "Thunderer." In the process, he has succeeded in making the Times the most controversial and talked-about paper in Britain today...
...entity; on the other hand, conservatives have complained that it aggravated inflation by breaking industry's united front against the unions' wage demands last year. But almost all political factions support the company because it is so important to the economy. On the instep of the Italian boot, IRI is now completing a $400 million steel plant for Italsider that will employ 45,000 and help to fulfill a legal requirement that IRI devote 40% of its investments to industrializing Italy's south...
...Class labor union members, with the aid of the army, politically defrocked him last August. A similar fate befell Dahomey's President Hubert Maga, who built himself a $3,000,000 palace and shrugged off charges of "squandermania" until his countrymen last December gave him the boot...
...nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle preside at the Congress of Vienna, to find that stormy Twin Brother Evelyn has resolved to get their...
...borrowed skates. Body crooked forward ("sitting down over his skates," experts call it), arms and legs pumping rhythmically, Richard ("Terry") McDermott, 23, slashed through the straightaway, around the turn, and across the finish line in 40.1 sec.-giving the U.S. its first gold medal and an Olympic record to boot...