Word: bootless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Complaint, however, is bootless and beside the point. To say that the concert was enjoyable would be an understatement--it was stupendous. After all, with Levin's gifts as a pianist and composer and with Mozart as collaborator, how could anyone miss...
While most Protestant denominations make it a standard practice to issue yearly statements of their financial assets, the Roman Catholic Church has not -a fact that has led to endless, and largely bootless, speculation about what it really does own.* Now, the Most Rev. Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge has lifted the greenback curtain slightly by publishing the first detailed financial statement ever issued by a U.S. Roman Catholic diocese...
...know beans about it," said Attorney Dean Andrews before he went on trial two weeks ago. For once he seemed to be right. Last week a five-man New Orleans jury* found him guilty of having committed perjury three times during District Attorney Jim Garrison's bootless investigation into the Kennedy assassination. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison...
...three days the marine tramped bootless through Viet Cong territory. Except to offer him food or water, Dodson's escort ignored him. By day his hands were bound in green nylon cord; at night he was tied hand and foot to a bamboo rack. Passing through villages, people turned out in droves to gape and offer water, candy, cigarettes and bananas. Only in a recently bombed hamlet were the villagers hostile, pushing close in an angry, chanting crowd until the chief arrived to disperse them. Four times, English-speaking Vietnamese appeared. Each asked Dodson's name and told...