Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact our organization classes the Communist Party as an enemy of the working class. As far as we are concerned, they can take the whole scabby, stinking Communist Party and kick it in the middle of Siberia and let it have a taste of Uncle Joe Stalin's slave camps ... It is our considerate opinion that this is a fit place for the American Communist Party, its stooges, its fellow travelers-long-haired ones, short-haired ones-and what have...
...years on How to Stop Worrying. "Let me warn you," says he, "you won't find anything new in it, but. . . you and I don't need to be told anything new. We already know enough to lead perfect lives . . . The purpose of this book is to . . . kick you in the shins . . ." Indeed, Author Carnegie's assault on worry is irresistible...
Timing & Histrionics. In St. Louis, where he packs them to the rafters, Wild Bill Longson demonstrates an experienced actor's adroit timing. Wild Bill knows exactly when a kick aimed at his opponent's groin will bring down an avalanche of hearty boos. His histrionic skill earns him $1,500 an appearance. Barrel-chested Yvon Robert (rhymes with snow bear) has done so well at playing hero in his home town that he is now co-owner in a profitable sideline: a fancy Montreal nightclub called El Morocco. Gargantuan Primo Camera has no particular gimmick...
When Novelist Henry James was 46 and a target for hostile English and American critics, he wrote to Fellow Novelist William Dean Ho wells: "Some day all my buried prose will kick off its various tombstones at once." Were James alive today (he died in 1916), he could hardly fail to be gratified by the many exhumations which have been carried on in his literary graveyard in the past ten years. The latest tombstone to be lifted has been pried up by the publishing house of Macmillan, which once spurned his writing as "honest scribble work and no more...
...Jibaro tribe in Ecuador gets a big kick out of decapitating their enemy warriors, Moran explains. As an added touch, they shrink them with hot sand and stones until they stand only a few inches high. "They're really interesting little souvenirs," Moranassures all skeptics...