Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sits General Carias, whose jails are still full of political prisoners. He glares at you out of a heavy, wooden face and asks: 'Why do you write such terrible things about me? Why do you do it?' Up on the hill in Managua is General Somoza, who kicks presidents in & out of office, at will. He greets you with a big smile and an abrazo and asks: 'Stanton, what can I do for you?' You talk about the political situation and he laughs at you and says: 'You know I have been good...
...agree to many provisions in the document in question would be like lying down to enable a bully to kick you with greater facility. And we were never one for that sort of thing." He had even offered the News to his I.T.U. employees, he said, if they would just pay him I.T.U. wages in return. They turned him down, so he was calling it quits. His printers could shift for themselves; Publisher Allen had sold his equipment for more than $50,000, was taking his wife and heading for the Caribbean in a surplus Marine Corps plane...
...Hope of a Kick. The Reading of Books is no fare for the page-skipper or the love-novel addict. But even for the incorrigibly lazy reader, Holbrook Jackson has a word of hope...
...Stanley High is unhappy because the Protestant Church has offered him the right hand of fellowship when "what I am in greater need of is a kick in the pants" (TIME, Aug. 18). I should like, humbly, to offer my foot as a substitute...
...Kick in the Pants. "The first reason for this failure is that the church-the modern, modernist Protestant church-rates me altogether too highly. It has been one of the glories of Protestantism that it has put its emphasis on the Individual, on Free Will and Free Choice. But the net result may prove to be disastrous. . . . I'm simply not as good as modern Protestantism assumes me to be. I haven't got the spiritual stuff to do, on my own, what modern Protestantism expects me to do. The church has failed me because it has given...