Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Bronx waiter: "First I'd grab my false teeth. . . . If there was time, I'd then put on my pants. And if I still had a little time, I'd kick my mother-in-law in the shins so she couldn't escape. No, that's not cruelty; that's justice...
...Madison, is quite proud of the way he fixed his boys up with dates for the dance. Even his side kick Tex Lifschutz (or some such similar spelling) is proud of "the Dog." Now if he'd just fix Dante up we'd be happy...
...some reason Tokyo had summoned Okamura from north China, after an upstairs kick for his predecessor, Field Marshal Shunroku Hata. Best guesses why: 1) the advance was now approaching the Kuang-si mountain ranges, where Okamura would feel at home; 2) Hata's campaign, despite its success, was behind schedule...
Military censors got a new kind of kick in their chair-worn pinks. The kicker was the author of "Marmaduke's Colum (The Journal of a London Sub-Editor's Youthful Son)" which appears weekly in London's World's Press News. Fortnight ago Marmaduke tried to imagine what would happen if Alfred, Lord Tennyson had had to get his Charge of the Light Brigade cleared through the Censorship Division of the British Ministry of Information...
...Stettinius maintained State Department silence. For unless the U.S. delivers a hard kick at Argentina, she will lose face in Latin America. But to kick hard, the U.S. would have to apply economic sanctions. Great Britain, Argentina's biggest customer, will definitely not follow the U.S. if sanctions are applied. The Pan American Union may keep a talking parrot, but by week's end it was the State Department that was getting the bird...