Word: booting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passengers and five crew members, only eleven survived the crash. Among the survivors were three members of a draft of 15 Marine recruits en route to boot camp at Parris Island...
...Those who had. lived like lords." The lawgivers renowned for political genius were to "the Romans themselves a subject of hilarity and despair," and the empire "was run on a system of looting rendered merciful by corruption." The stalwart Roman soldiery took 121 years to subdue Sicily and the boot of Italy and, says Menen, the army never took to the business of empire building in a big way until mercenaries were employed. By contrast, he argues, the soldiers of Islam conquered about 20 times the territory in one-fourth the time...
Morison and his staff witnessed all major U.S. naval operations, interviewed top brass and boot seamen; after the war, he settled down on Boston's Beacon Hill and rolled out volume after imposing volume. Before his mission was accomplished, Morison retired from both Harvard and (as a rear admiral) from the Navy. But only last year, at 72, he published John Paul Jones and thus sailed another Pulitzer prizewinning biography into port...
...CAREER. Vastly amused, Debs granted the interview, and Lasker's career moved into high gear. At 18, he went to Chicago to work for $10 a week as an ad salesman for Lord & Thomas. At 35, he owned L. & T. and several million dollars to boot...
...risk of his life. Father Bowles, the sinner of Michelfelder's Be Not Angry, is let off almost scot-free: since his vocation was not as strong as his male hunger for a woman, he is allowed to write off his priesthood and go with God to boot...