Boot Shaped

What if the boot-and-pole contraption didn't need to wait for signals from a faraway human astronaut at all, but could be programmed to autonomously tap the surface on approach, make and photograph a nice boot-shaped mark, and perhaps even scoop up a sample or two of asteroid dust to send back to Earth in a small capsule? ❋ SETI Institute (2011)

But even when I finally did get around to visiting the boot-shaped peninsula after all this time on a recent trip over Christmas, it wasn't until I drove along the Amalfi Coast that I realized what I had been missing. ❋ Gregory Curley (2011)

Michael Tusk, chef and co-owner of San Francisco restaurant Quince, and its new, Italian-inflected neighbor Cotogna, lives to sample imports from the boot-shaped nation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It could even collect a sample while making a boot-shaped impression. ❋ SETI Institute (2011)

Viete is on Italy's eastern Adriatic coast in the southern Puglia region, which makes up the "heel" of boot-shaped Italy. ❋ AP (2010)

Bent, mangled bikes were strewn about the scene, and the sheet-draped corpses dotted the two-lane road near Lamezia Terme, in the Calabrian "toe" of boot-shaped Italy where the accident occurred. ❋ AP (2010)

A speeding car plowed head-on into a group of cyclists near Lamezia Terme, in the Calabrian " toe " of boot-shaped Italy, killing eight of them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some ten years ago, the iconic blue team from the boot-shaped country helped make Castelli famous with their stylish azure outfits. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I trace the familiar boot-shaped peninsula on the screen with my finger and examine the tiny yellow lines and street names: Shore Road, East Way, West Way. ❋ Emily W. Upham (2010)

To Lucy's creator, Italy wasn't a boot-shaped landmass so much as a "glorious limb sliding southward between warming seas," as Forster scribbled in his diary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Viete is on Italy ' s eastern Adriatic coast in the southern Puglia region, which makes up the " heel " of boot-shaped Italy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, the trapezoid bone connected to the index finger was wedge-shaped, not boot-shaped, as in humans. ❋ Unknown (2007)