Word: booting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biddle boy [Moncure Biddle of Philadelphia] is quite crazy, fresh and stupid, he has been boot-boxed once and threatened to be pumped* several times. . . . My tail is better but the hard benches hurt it a little. I rub it with Arnica but it is not easy. . . . The only ball I received I nobly missed, and it landed biff! on my stomach, to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present. ... I should very much like a red turtle neck sweater...
Robert L. Jones '47, secretary of the Boot and Wing Club, a group which meets every Wednesday night to talk over old times and drink beer, had said that some of the members would jump if funds were forthcoming...
Carey's move to investigate Communists in the union died without coming to a vote. A six-to-one majority voted to boot him and his followers out of the union "if they persist in their disruption." The steamroller crushed Carey's opposition slate, easily carried Emspak, Matles and Fitzgerald into control for another year...
...stranger, who feels that the war is over now and that people should be sociable again, irritatingly insists on wearing enigmatic checkered pants. At last his hideous secret comes out: he was not only a Union soldier, but a schoolmaster to boot. Ultimately, of course, he unmasks the barn-burners, pacifies MacBean, and gets the girl...
...anyone did not know the makeup of the train, it was not the fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody...