Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also the season in which the ancient wheeze about the water boy came true. Against Texas Christian University three weeks ago, Texas used theirs to kick two extra points...
...think I'm a good mother, but I can remember all too well punishing my children in the heat of disappointment or shock and wishing later I hadn't. ... He made a mistake-and it can't be undone-I just hope they won't kick him to death while he's down." Clifton Fadiman, in his last month as The New Yorker's book critic, was reported by friends to be playing with the idea of running for Congress. He emphatically commented: "Ridiculous!" Old Sports...
...deciding tally came after the civilians' quick kick backfired by going out on their own twenty. Two plays brought the ball to the one-yard line, and the V-12 powerhouse pushed over for a scored after three plays...
...whammed it down on the collective pate of organized labor. The blow, wrapped in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, was delivered with the same kind of gusto with which he had smashed so savagely at various A.F. of L. unions (building trades, teamsters, musicians) as harmful monopolies. His kick upstairs to the bench brought no heartier sighs of relief from any area than from labor...
First he read a clipping from Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...