Word: booted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't really want to continue war in Vietnam or get involved in the Chilean counter-revolution, but rather those filthy moneymongers forced him to. Finally, sick of prostituting himself and his country, he resolved to stop being their puppet. As a result, they organized the Watergate scandal to boot him out of office. Nixon reveals all sorts of other things too--his dreams of being Abraham Lincoln, his childhood insecurities, his hatred of Kennedy. And when he's really raving, he spouts obscenities at the portrait of Kissinger on the wall, sings ditties at the piano, and cries...
...second misconception is that English is already more or less ensconced as the international language, and is gaining ground to boot. Without writing an entire chapter on the subject (as I would have to do to refute fully either of the two stated misconceptions). I will only observe that (1) the number of official languages at the UN is increasing rather than remaining constant or decreasing, as would be the case if there were a real and visible tendency toward the universal acceptance of English; and (2) it is altogether understandable and fitting that English not be elected...
...travel plans. Passing through Madrid on a band tour in the spring of 1980, Sax Player Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban born and Cuban bred, was at the airport, bag packed as usual for another gig. Inside his luggage, however, was a carefully weighted assortment of stones, an army boot and a piece of a baseball bat. By the time the bag was stashed on the plane, D'Rivera was on his way into Madrid, planning his route to the American embassy. Quite a nice piece of amateur cold warring, all things considered. New World, Third World, it makes...
...McKinney hardly cuts the blocky figure of a woman skier. Actually, the entire women's team appears less robust than its regimen. At various boot camps from Hawaii to New Zealand, karate and pro football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously...
...Memphis Press-Scimitar (as in sword) folded on Halloween. It was known as a blue-collar paper. The next morning, the Commercial Appeal, which is not known as a blue-collar paper, announced that among the many changes to come, the newspaper would be made "easier to read." To boot, a full one-fourth of the front page was occupied by a color photograph of a black man picking cotton, a quaint idea in an enormous amount of space. Alas, it seemed, a newspaper had finally reached a par with television: it had managed to torment one's intelligence...