Word: kick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method. In his own ward at the Milwaukee County Asylum, 32 patients had been tied up. He took the restraints off every one. Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They were happier than they had been for years. I figured there'd be lots of fights. But there weren't any." One of his patients, who had been in constant restraint for eight years, is now in charge of a ward bathroom and is proud...
...moas found ranged from the 12-ft.-tall Dinornis maximus down to the ostrich-sized Euryapteryx. Big & little, they apparently wandered into the swamp while feeding. Their enormous feet were fine defensive weapons (the far smaller South American rheas have been known to kick a mule to death), but were no good for bogtrotting. As they sank, the birds kicked and struggled; skeletons have been found with one leg raised as though in a last, despairing kick...
...brilliant 35 yard penalty kick with two minutes left to play by Princeton's John Cotter gave the visiting Tiger rugby squad the three points it needed to tie up the game and resulted in the second consecutive deadlock of the 1949 Harvard Princeton series. This time the final score was 3 to 3. In Bermuda it had been...
...conversion attempt had to be made form what was virtually an impossible angle and Hollis French's kick fell wide of the mark...