Word: booting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heading for the finish line, Wickhamhas scored a mere 275 points in his final round, placing him 252 in a field of 360. He gives the bandit a kick with his black snakeskin boot. Tilt! "They put this machine in cold water," he growls. "It's giving me ice cubes." Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! The tournament is over. Mr. Slot King has crapped...
Annette Prophet [reassuring the actors]: "No one's 'getting the boot.' Why, I'd feel like a heel! Our people are the sole of the Stu-Stu Studio. That's what separates us from our arch-rivals...
Final clubs are racist and elitist, to boot. If you liked the Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard where men were men, where money talked loud and status even louder, where the unwashed masses were kept in their proper place and women were toys for young bachelors to play with. They are a thorn in the side of tolerance, equality and diversity...
...poll also indicates a huge gender gap in opinions about the war. College men--though in the event of a draft they would be the first ones in boot camp--seem to be hawks nonetheless, with 69 percent of them supporting the war. The women took a more dovish stance, with less than half of them supporting...
...supposed to be founded on "the rule of law, not the law of the jungle." But the government of the Soviet Union, the essential partner in such a future order, still seems to favor the feral approach. Knowing the world was looking somewhere else, its army stamped a bloody boot on separatist Lithuania -- a no-nonsense warning that the union of Soviet republics will not be allowed to splinter. President Mikhail Gorbachev's verbal shrug at the violence looked like a casual reactivation of the Brezhnev Doctrine -- in his own country...