Word: booting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined to second the vote of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee and oust moderation-minded Louisiana National Committeeman Camille F. Gravel Jr., who, since 1954, has backed several civil rights measures. Gravel was supported by National Chairman Paul Butler, who insisted that only the National Committee itself can boot one of its members. Gravel won a resounding 91-to-15 vote of endorsement...
...from the Italian equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court. Francesco Giuseppe Rauti, 36, had quit his job as a salesman eight years ago and become a Pentecostal pastor after attending an evangelical service in Bari. He went to Crotone (pop. 40,000) on the sole of Italy's boot in 1955, and since then has managed to recruit a congregation of more than 300. When the police closed down his church in a converted apartment, Rauti carried his case to the 15-man Constitutional Court, whereupon the court ruled that no one in Italy needed a license to build...
...yards in 22 carries against Dartmouth, has moved into fifth place among running backs with a total of 191 yards in 45 tries, an average of 4.3 yards per attempt. He is second to Cornell's Tom Skypeck, the Ivy "Back of the Week," in punting, with an average boot of 37.5 yards...
...standby peace force." But last week U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cautiously rejected the whole idea of a permanent U.N. army, ready to rush off anywhere and any time. The kind of force "generally envisaged," said he, "would be without great practical value," and expensive to boot...
...wasn't very happy, and turning the heel of his engineer's boot on the young lords, he made for his Detroit charger...