Word: boot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been grievously damaged by Kodak's alleged monopoly power; Berkey lost $24.2 million in the first nine months of 1977. To the astonishment of many legal experts, the jury agreed, finding that Kodak had monopolized the U.S. market for cameras, film and color-print paper and, to boot, had violated the fair-pricing provisions of the Robinson-Patman...
...though, until the final buzzer because the Bruins slipped in a four-point play with 33 seconds showing on the clock. Dwayne Maynard hit the first of a one-and-one situation but missed the second. Pete Moss snared the rebound and sunk the bucket, and was fouled to boot, putting the Bruins within three, 68-65. That was the closest Brown came as Fine dribbled down the clock...
...dance. And indeed, as The Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. In classics like Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot was transformed into a feast, a torn newspaper enjoyed a new career as a lace tablecloth. Such lyric moments lifted Chaplin to pantheon status. He became the friend of kings and critics. Einstein sought him out; Churchill praised him. George Bernard Shaw called him "the one genius created by the cinema." Millionaires welcomed Charlie...
...assistant professor of physical education at California State University in East Los Angeles. She only had space for 67 students, each of whom paid $22.50 in tuition, but she promises a repeat course in January. Conroy, 5 ft. 4 in. tall and a springy 104 Ibs., sounds like a boot camp instructor drilling raw recruits. "Ready, gouge! Ready, gouge!" she shouted one afternoon last week. "Now follow with the knee in the groin. G-o-o-o-o-d." Conroy insists that her students wear ordinary street clothes rather than leotards or warmup suits. "Those are not," she notes, "what...
Even by Texas standards, the trial unfolding on the fifth floor of the Potter County courthouse in Amarillo was getting steamier by the minute. The state's prime witness was a platinum blonde who was known to wear a .32 strapped to her boot and a necklace that spells out RICH BITCH in diamonds; the defendant was her husband, one of the Lone Star State's richest men. The charge: murder...