Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Conductor Dorati had more cause than usual to kick the furniture. He had been brought to Manhattan to be music director of a new "World's Fair of Music." A 70-piece orchestra, plus such big name help as Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald, Ballet Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, had been signed up to lure lookers and listeners into Grand Central Palace...
When he runs, Patton's face becomes a study in desperation- teeth gritted, eyes squinted. He is the opposite of Charley Paddock, who was what trackmen call a "driver." Because of Paddock's high knee action and short back kick, people some times swore that "he ran sitting down." Patton, whose legs revolve' with a smooth wheel-like motion, is a "floater...
When he hitched to Skagway at the start of the Klondike rush of '97, Mike was a strapping, redheaded six-footer from the backwoods of Quebec. He was handy with his fists and his feet, could kick off the bar in the hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains...
...popular sport in the '903, played by making a standing high jump and lashing out with a high kick while...
...Custard Principle. Ventre hit a deep strain in Spectator readers. But would his philosophy work? Wrote one: "Kick the cat, snap asunder the shanking mashie . . . show resistentia that you will stand no nonsense. But this is bad for the blod pressure . . . Ventre gives no guide in this dilemma." Wrote another: man might still "divide, deceive and sometimes rule. A lawn perishing from drought may be saved by its owner's . . . leaving a valuable book outdoors. By a variation of this principle, the grim persistence of watched pots in not boiling can be harnessed to prevent the ruin...