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Word: stomper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...knives; bodies grabbed and ransacked; a sour, filthy cell shared for most of a day with a hothead who wouldn't mind killing again. The experience of a given prison is indiscriminate: the car thief endures the same, day by day, as the angel-dust wholesaler and the habitual stomper of schoolchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are Prisons For? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Elevated to the presidency, Poli took his reputation as a militant seriously. A hearty eater and drinker, the 6-ft. 2-in. Pittsburgh native usually speaks calmly and always clearly. "I am not a ranter or a raver or a stomper," he says. "I am frank and straightforward." One critic calls him "a brash bastard," while one follower considers him "a helluva father figure." Poli does not apologize for, in effect, pushing his friend Leyden aside. "We could see there might be cause to strike," he explains coolly. "I knew I would be ready for it, and John might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turbulence in the Tower | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...took them to club dates in the gritty seaport of Hamburg, West Germany, where they eventually changed their name to the Beatles and got a double dose of the seamier side of rock life Lennon, who like the rest of the boys favored black leather jackets, pegged pants and stomper boots, was sending long

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day in the Life | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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