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Word: kicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay him even more heartily after it) permit him this week of peaceful gestation; only a bounder or a cad would kick a Chancellor of the Exchequer in this condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pomp | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Stork Club," declared Sherman Billingsley, its money-making proprietor, "is more of a hobby with me than a business. I get a big kick out of it." He wanted to die working at the Stork, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Providence, R. I., citizens who had been run out of Roger Williams Park at 10 p.m. by the cops had a kick coming. An investigation revealed that some of the cops had been trysting for two years with local girls in the park barn-after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...years afterward Smith used to kick himself mentally because he learned too late that the sprigs he talked to were 1) H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, and 2) his brother, the future King George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Double Take | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...driving along the Tiber with four friends. . . . Suddenly one of them yelled to stop and they jumped from the car. ... I turned and saw them surround the man we had been waiting for. I watched them punch and kick him in the belly. . . . They dragged him quickly into the car. I slipped into gear and sped off. ... He struggled. ... I hollered to him to be quiet. . . . He was lying in the car, spitting blood. I knew he suffered from tuberculosis. . . . Soon he was just a corpse. ... It was a nightmare. I just began to drive wildly . . . for seven hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: So Long Ago | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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