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Word: boot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure in the booster-rocket test was unrelated to the malfunction that caused the Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, when fire burned through an O-ring that sealed the joint between two rocket sections. This time the problem was in a flexible boot ring that helps anchor the swiveling rocket nozzle to the rigid booster case. Nearly half of the ring, which is 8 in. wide, 2 in. thick and 8 ft. in diameter, broke away during the horizontal ground test; some pieces were found inside the booster. The nozzle had been deliberately shifted 7 degrees, just 1 degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Grounded: Another setback for the shuttle | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...Dollar Dry Dock, was playing on those emotions in a recent full-page newspaper ad: IF YOU WANT TO HELP YOURSELF AND CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING AMERICA'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH, CONSIDER 'SOCKING AWAY' A LITTLE MORE OF YOUR INCOME. A shrewd pitch: saving is not only savvy, but patriotic to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting The Urge to Splurge | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...burst of World War II in the Pacific. Behind the camera is Jim's spiritual cousin, Steven Spielberg, 39. Spielberg's trials of the past couple of years have been nowhere so cataclysmic as those that befell Jim, his family and millions of other refugees under the imperial Japanese boot. Still, they must have injected an unwelcome dose of maturity into the man with a lock on childhood. The films produced recently under his aegis have fizzled at the box office. His TV series, Amazing Stories, limped through its two-year run. Could he ever fail? He could. Not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man-Child Who Fell to Earth EMPIRE OF THE SUN | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...drinking," says Polk, "but with all the riding, we were healthy." Another old Riley hand, Major General Lawrence ("Bud") Schlanser, arrived at the post as a second lieutenant and married Jill Rodney, daughter of Colonel Dorcey Read Rodney, the commandant, "a little bandy-legged guy, tough as an old boot." Socializing for young married officers and their wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues for the men, 15 cents movies and milk shakes afterward at the PX. "Your sole purpose in life was to develop your equestrian skills," Schlanser recalls. "Yeah, they paid us to ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kansas: Echoing Hoofbeats | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Kicking Game: Before last week's game against Princeton, Yale's Todd Cowen had punted 23 times for an average boot of just 28.8 yards. Due to the injury to kicker Dave Derby, Tom Walter will be attempting field goals and PAT's for the Elis. Walter has attempted, and made, just one 30-yard field goal

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Scouting Report | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

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