Word: boot
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...election was about gridlock in Congress, a war that can't be won or lost, mixed signals on the economy, no consensus on immigration, soaring deficits and scandals to boot. If partisans want to cheer for more of the same, so be it. Meanwhile, the general public will support the party that can lead this country back to being a beacon of freedom, justice and prosperity...
Winehouse isn’t afraid to offend: it’s clear from the beginning that she has a mouth dirtier than Mexican water and an attitude to boot. She’s a living, breathing, rehab-hopping, cussing train wreck who lays it all out there for us, sordid and unashamed. In “Me and Mr. Jones,” a cute bluesy ditty with a horn section and back up singers, Winehouse off-handedly sings, “What kind of fuckery is this? / Nowadays you don’t mean dick...
...Then there is the argument that Bush should boot his Vice President before he strikes again. It's an often forgotten fact that three of the past six Presidents either dumped or tried to dump their Vice Presidents: Richard Nixon tossed Spiro Agnew for Gerald Ford in 1973, Ford tossed Nelson Rockefeller and tapped Bob Dole as a running mate in the 1976 campaign, and Bush's father George Herbert Walker Bush let his top aides try to give the heave-ho to Vice President Dan Quayle when he was dragging down the G.O.P. ticket by three or four points...
DIED. Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, 89, who, as a World War II reporter for the German navy, dutifully wrote pieces of wartime propaganda, then turned his experiences into a 1973 antiwar book, Das Boot (The Boat), which profoundly moved Germans and became a global best seller and a 1981 film; in Berlin...
...traveling a lot at the time. "These days, when you pass the exam but don't get in, you can challenge that. But in those days, you were afraid. Who are you to go and make noise? In those days when you go, the big men will boot you out. That is why democracy is better...