Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last letter, written a few days before his death, he said: 'I am in the assault wave this time. I know it will be rough, but I have no kick coming, as I asked for it. If it will ease your mind any, remember that this was my idea. I wanted to come over here. I am scared and I am not ashamed to admit it. Also I have been reading my Bible regularly. It makes you feel a lot better...
...Happy Warrior fought back. He traveled the U.S. in a special train with 40 reporters. He never lost his grin; at press conferences he would order: "Throw in the ball, boys, and I'll kick at it." But the shrewd, hoarse eloquence, the administrative abilities that he had, and the support of all liberals, were not enough -the Great Engineer was elected. But now Smith had the fever. He became convinced that next time he would make it. When his old friend Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 nomination by the famed McAdoo-Garner-Hearst deal, Al Smith felt...
...most important hold-overs from Harlow and Harvard strategy of yore is the policy of kicking on third, and sometimes second, down. Designed to "make the break" for the Crimson, the idea depends on a high-calibre punter and fast wingmen. The point, as illustrated amply in the W. P. I. encounter by booter Walt Coulson and several hard-charging Lamar linemen, is to keep kicking after one or two running plays, until a break comes, in the form of a fumble by the punt-returner, or a blocked kick...
Harvard's first score came at the very end of the second period, when left end Dana Bresnahan took the ball on an end-around play through right guard for seven yards and a touchdown. Garrity's kick for the extra point was good...
...bound booter notched four goals in the last two periods to clinch the game for the Crimson. This brings his total for the two contests played so far in the fall season to nine goals. Sharing honors with Heisler for the Crimson was goalie Dick Harshman, who turned aside kick after kick off the toes of the Worcester booters...