Word: stomps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been thinking about the word "comp." It's a sinister word: it rhymes with "stomp" and "whomp." "Comper" sounds like my last name. During the news comp, I was called "Molly B. Comper" by some of the executives...
...roommates and I get into arguments all the time. And we almost always end up shouting so loud that people can hear us all the way down the hall. Voices get hoarse, tempers flare, sometimes we throw insults or furniture at each other, some of us stomp out of the room fuming--but only to come back to get that last, trenchant word...
Would the Chicago Bulls expect much from themselves if they played without Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan? Could the Dallas Cowboys stomp the Buffalo Bills if Emmit Smith and Troy Aikman were watching from the sidelines...
Within moments clerk Holmes pronounced "guilty" again. The jury had reached that verdict on a charge that Officer Laurence Powell "did willfully strike . . . kick and stomp Rodney Glen King," thereby violating King's constitutional right "not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law, including the right to be . . . free from the intentional use of unreasonable force" by policemen. In the basement of the First A.M.E. Church, a voice cried, "Thank God!" On the videotape of the beating made by an onlooker and shown endlessly on TV, Powell had been seen to strike by far the most blows...
...tonks into yuppie nightspots across America: country- line dancing. A descendant of the conga line and the Harlem Hustle, line dancing lets any number join in on a series of dips, kicks and turns, under names like Walkin' Wazi, Boot Scootin' Boogie, Tush Push, Neon Moon and Honky- Tonk Stomp...