Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Klein yelled at him, hoping to turn him, but still he came. I had one shell left in my double-barreled gun, and shot at his head. Klein and Pete shot at the same time. I was off my balance. . . . My foot caught as I stepped back from the kick of the gun, and down I fell on my back in the thorn bushes. Now, two things happened as I fell: First, I saw the bull go down, and secondly I knocked your mother down, too. We were lying flat on our backs in the thorns. Klein yelled...
...unionization issue, all coal codes were shunted back into conference where NRA deputies would hammer out some sort of agreement among 27 snarling factions. Unless the non-union coal operators voluntarily withdrew their restrictions on collective bargaining, as the steelmasters had already done, General Johnson was ready to kick the company union clause out of their code. Said he: "They'll meet with the devil himself if their workers select him to act for them...
...friends, ignores strangers about the office. As a matter of business newsmen play up to her, get their neckties straightened and handkerchiefs adjusted in return. Says Secretary Robinson: "It's wonderful to meet all the great men of the country. I'm getting a great kick out of it. But after all this is just another...
Some people do not recognize us as anything but bums and slackers. We are neither. We work for a living. We are not slackers. We are willing to work. Please make this clear to the readers of the TIME and help us along with a boost instead of a kick...
Pulpit Harbor was easy to enter but hard to leave next morning when a balky motor refused to kick the little schooner out into the wind. Naval mechanics found a broken valve spring, had to send to Camden for a new one. The President did some public business with Private Secretary Early, who was aboard the Ellis, received two lobsters from an 87-year-oldster who claimed he was the oldest Democratic voter in Maine, signed a musty old hotel register just below ''U. S. Grant...