Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted to do so, I want to express my admiration of his patriotic courage, his large vision and his statesmanlike sense of what has to be done. I like to lay my mind alongside of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral...
...Just as in 1917, we are seeking to pull in harness; just as in 1917. horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral. . . . There are hotheads who think that results can be obtained by noise or violence; there are insidious voices seeking to instill methods or principles which are wholly foreign to the American form of Democratic government. . . . The overwhelming majority of the workers understand, as do the overwhelming majority of the employers of the country, that this is no time to seek special privilege, undue advantage, or personal gain because of the fact...
Seemingly this two-to-one swift kick at the vanishing posterior of ex-Premier Lerroux convinced President Alcala Zamora that the Cortes was incorrigibly radical, must be dissolved to give the Spanish people a chance to elect new Deputies. For months Conservatives have been urging this course, predicting a Conservative landslide. To hold the election the President needed a "strong" Premier. He spent the week trying to find one, called in successively a wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth...
...last three minutes California came from behind to tie the score with a hard-hitting St. Mary's team, and kick the winning point...
...uninspiring contest played Saturday on the Varsity field the Freshmen were held to a six to six tie by Exeter Academy. Gordon Clark scored for Exeter early in the first period with a plunge through right tackle and a fifty yard run for a touchdown. Wilson's kick for extra point went wide. The score was tied in the third quarter by Thomas Bilodeau '37 for the Freshmen with two field goals, one from mid-field and the other from the twenty yard line...