Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lopsided, bitter portrait of a loudmouthed, fire-eating, bullying U.S. general, who resembles General Patton; 4) a plot. The work of 29-year-old LIFE Editor John Hersey (Men on Bataan, Into the Valley), based on his war-reporting experiences in Sicily, it has an impact like the kick of one of the mules on the road to Adano...
...torpedoes; we fired all and held our breath. There was a very nice bang at the end of the right time. Through the periscope I saw he had been hit just behind the conning tower and sank very quickly. It was quite fun; it gives you quite a kick. His stern sank lower and lower, and his bow came up out of the water, right straight up, and woof...
...Sergeant Melvin Schifter takes time out to give the American Legion a kick in the pants we don't appreciate...
...Argentine people like to call themselves democrats, but so far they have merely laughed up their sleeves at the strutting Colonels, made no attempt to kick them out. One reason is that Argentines are so well off that nothing their Government does seems important. Their wheat, meat, linseed, wool, hides, tannic extract, and dairy products are snapped up by the United Nations at fancy prices. The figures are secret, but most of the food goes to armies in Europe and civilians in Great Britain...
...qualification card too literally. So can the disgruntled G.I. who is in the mechanized cavalry because his mother was a bareback equestrienne for Barnum and Bailey. Nobody's denying they make mistakes in classification. It's a big Army of the United States. But Joe College has no kick coming. Not if I can judge by what I've seen in assorted Posts, Camps and Stations...