Word: kick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launched himself into the water like a spent torpedo. He rolled a spray-spattered eye at the four other sprinters splashing in other lanes until he saw whom he had to beat. Then, head down, he started churning, with a fast arm but a slow, deep kick that is uncommon to sprinters. A pinwheel fast turn and a lung-busting finish did the trick as usual. When Wally's big hand touched the tile 51.4 seconds after the start, he could add another A.A.U. championship to his collection of titles (fortnight ago, he was voted the all-collegiate swimmer...
...brother (Arthur Kennedy), Midge gets his start in a fight-club preliminary. With a natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
Densmore tallied Harvard's try in the 3-3 tie with Yale, missing his first penalty kick but making the second. Yale scored on an unconverted try. The game went into overtime but was called when neither team produced a score and the players became exhausted...
...glanced at his watch; five o'clock. Late again for cocktails. Vag broke into a slight sweat as he took a last look at the practice. Well, even if he didn't help out the team this spring, he could always kick points for Art Valpey next fall...
...Dominican exile. Ex-Millionaire Juan Rodriguez, who had sunk his fortune into the Legion, blamed Figueres for "playing ball with other factions." With a distasteful glance at the litter of papers in his shabby room, he sighed: "I never thought I'd come to Central America. But to kick out Trujillo, I'd go to China, or Japan-or even to hell...