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Word: kicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill" Jenkins, who is temporarily ineligible. Their combined absence necessitated Garrity's shift to the wingback position. Still in sick bay was right end Rod Perkins, whose shoes were well filled another veteran of last year's team, was a draw, as each man averaged approximately 38 yards per kick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linemen Prove Victory Margin As Crimson Trounces Worcester | 10/3/1944 | See Source »

...come home from hell and find us full of lassitude and complacency and you want to kick our teeth in. We can see your point. Can you see our point? We originally were made of the same fabric. Yours is maybe now a little tattered. But it can be mended. We can meet on a common plane if you will understand us too. We are the reality. The scene of battle is in an obscure past. We are the future, your future. You had better accept us and our frailties and our good intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Once in a great while this clip-and-paste system slips a cog. For example, there was the week a Medicine story on dipsomaniacs got mixed up with a Science story on fish. Our sailors overseas must have gotten quite a kick out of reading about drunken smelts. ("The mysterious malady that all but wiped out the Great Lakes smelts is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons. But a few hardy ones survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 18, 1944 | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...loud Washington uproar. Nelson's friends -who included a group of the New Deal's most expert hatchet men-called his Presidential mission a "Chinese burial." They charged that the man who was fighting for "the little fellow" was being "sent to Siberia," had been given a "kick in the teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Dear Charlie | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...truth seemed to be that the Nazis -while suppressing resisters-had courted Paris as a moonstruck lout courts a handsome woman. Paris had smiled grimly and waited her chance to kick the lout in the derriere. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Smile and the Kick | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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