Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed) the driver's only vision is through two tiny (one-inch by four-inch) slits in the inch-thick armor. Peering through the main gun port, the tank commander in the turret actually guides the tank by varying foot signals to the driver (to start, a light kick in the back; to stop, a steady pressure on the head). Today Sergeant Pullen scorned the foot signals, drove the tank solely with his microscopic vision through the armor slits...
...Judge Clark decided to raise a kick. And he did, in his legal way. He called the Prohibition Act unconstitutional. Nobody really cares whether or not his argument was water-tight. The fact remains that people agreed with him, and after a while the Prohibition Act was repealed. Then, before the popping of the champagne corks had died down, this Harvard gentleman made sure that the legality of the liquor racket wouldn't be carried to extremes, by clipping the rather dirty wings of beer baron Dutch Schultz. By now, people in Jersey, (where the Judge was operating) were prepared...
...when the U. S. was beginning to worry about its gang wars, young Jan Valtin and 27 fellow Communists, armed with guns and hand grenades, attacked five policemen in a station in Hamburg ("From the floor a policeman was still firing. The stevedore crushed his face with a kick of his heavy boot. Another policeman had the side of his neck torn away; he was bleeding to death under a table. . . ."). While the U. S. was worrying about the depression in 1930, Conspirator Valtin was carrying money from Antwerp to Montevideo, glued into the lining of a suitcase C"Astonishing...
...Kick: dishonorable discharge...
...those of us who have been suffering from a recent overdoes of the highly-arranged, sophisticated jazz of small groups like the Goodman Sextet and the John Kirby band, it's something of a pleasure to get on a Fats Waller Kick. While other orchestras have been receiving terrific publicity from swing critics and press agents, Fats and his band have remained somewhat in the background. For the past several years they have not been getting half the praise they deserve...