Word: booted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before uttering any unseemly thoughts. According to a survey by the Munich newspaper Abendzeitung, Bavarians who vilify traffic officers as damischer Bullen (stupid bull) are fined an average of $1,710. Some less costly imprecations include Raubritter (robber baron) at $1,140, Depp (idiot) at $513 and Stinkstiefel (smelly boot), a relative bargain...
...streaking down the sidelines and gets him the ball. Cheers roll around the Yale Bowl. You take a sip of the strong stuff. With halftime 10 seconds away, Yale kicker Dave Derby attempts a 44-yd. field goal. No way he makes it, you say. He does--the longest boot of his career. You take another...
American eccentrics have replaced their British brethren as the uncontested leaders of oddballitry -- and are less sarcastic to boot...
...lectores used to hook the workers with popular novels, leaving everyone in suspense for the next installment and substantially cutting down on absenteeism to boot. "On hot days," recalls Henry Aparicio, 72, whose father was a famous reader from Spain, "the people who lived close to the factory would sometimes sit outside with parasols, knitting and sewing, trying to find out how the soap operas were going...
...Bruins play the game? New Jersey had already screwed them by going outside the league for the injunction and causing the start of the game to be delayed for over an hour, and the league screwed them by insisting that amateur refs, and New Jersey employees to boot, work the game...