Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Popular understanding of the Japanese in America will serve us well both nationally and internationally. Not only will it kick the pants of the dangerous all-Japanese-are-no-good societies, but it will help bring about intelligent relations with a postwar Japan...
Secret of the kickless weapon: it lets some of the powder blast drive to the rear through the breech as the projectile is driven forward. Result: the rearward blast cancels out the "kick" of the gun. One of the weapon's drawbacks: the blast-a fiery column 12-to-15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter-might betray its location to the enemy...
...countryside near Vancouver, Apiarist William Feedham saw a farmer casually kick over a full beehive. To Apiarist Feedham's further astonishment, a group of calves tethered a few feet away paid no attention to the milling swarms of bees. "I realized right away," he says, "that the bees in Squamish Valley were vastly different from any I had ever seen before. Obviously they did not sting...
...This kick in the teeth to Omar Khayyam, by a first-century Roman philosopher, heads an interesting discussion* of alcoholism, by eminent medicos, released last week...
...kneecap last summer during a performance of Mexican Hayride, showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...