Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kick Over Every Pot. Lombardo ran a handkerchief-covered finger inside his sweaty collar. With a mocking smile, Party Leader Pietro Nenni handed him a glass of water. "You say that the Marshall Plan ruins our chances of trading with Russia," Lombardo continued. "Do you know what percentage of our imports came from Russia? 1%." A deafening roar swept up from the audience. In a last effort, Lombardo shouted: "To sabotage the Marshall Plan is to kick over every pot in every Italian kitchen...
...concert at the Harvard Club conclave in Philadelphia the second week in May is another tentative on the spring schedule. Thinness of the band's wallet would probably put round-trip transportation of instruments and players largely on the personal resources of the members, unless the alumni kick...
...Mexican delegate, oldtime Labor Boss Luis Morones, had tried to kick up a row by accusing the A.F.L. of keeping Argentines away from Lima. He got nowhere. A tactless resolutions committee had brought in pronouncements for planned economy and against the "imperialistic manifestations of U.S. economic policy in Latin America." They were tabled after the A.F.L.'s Serafino Romualdi urged "editing down those socialistic ideas...
...Kansas City, a grocery clerk named James Robert Browne, who had spent 43 months overseas in World War II, 'said: "This is my third Christmas home and I am still not getting much kick out of it. Don't ask me why." College students, however, betrayed no such introspection. Girls from Southern Methodist University had some new slang: they spoke of all material things as "sussies" and used "sneedy" as a term of disapproval...
Juan Domingo Perón, boss of Argentina, peered into the future, reported back that 1948 would be "very bad" and 1949 "terrible." But he was doing his best, he said, scooping up a slightly congested metaphor: "I am trying to bring accord . . . so that we may all kick the ball toward the same goal...