Word: booting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital of learning and culture. Its small luxury shops are almost as bright, smart and busy as when Kyoto was called Japan's Paris. Its many huge temples make Kyoto, like Rome, a city of bells. As Japan's holy city, and a second-rate target to boot, Kyoto escaped bombing. Last week, amid spring's pink and white cherry blossoms, Kyoto seemed full of changeless charm. But beneath the surface stirred the changes of postwar U.S. occupation and tutelage. Surveying the scene, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles found the ferment "still far from democracy, but fascinating...
Tradition has it that the first filly to boot a winner home this morning will wear the winner's wreath in the biggest rat race of them all-a wedding band--before any other member of her class. If she already has the services of a legally acquired stud, the story goes, she will be the first to foal...
Holy Cross left fielder Bob Dittmeyer had a very pleasant afternoon yesterday. Not a single ball came his way all day and he got two hits to boot. Meanwhile, the Crusaders thumped the visiting Harvard nine...
...washed aside by the tide of bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...
...Boot for the Billikens. Top-seeded, top-ranking Kentucky lost (67-56) to its first tournament opponent, a husky Loyola University (of Chicago) team that had not even been seeded. The fans had the unusual sight of a veteran team losing its poise. Two of Kentucky's three all-Americas (Alex Groza and Wah Wah Jones) left the game on fouls; only little Ralph Beard played up to his press clippings...