Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rockets v. Rockets. Many new weapons come from the weird and wonderful union of rocket propulsion, aerodynamics and electronics. The rocket principle, in effect giving missiles a second kick after they have been fired from guns or mortars, is also being applied to heavy aircraft (if they can be shot off the ground, they can save gas for longer flights with heavier loads...
Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
Before this starts to look too simple, it must be remembered that there are also fast-breaking plays with no spinning Involved, and that the ball frequently goes to the tailback. Also that the team runs from a straight single-wing and a kick formation at times...
Tall, casual Archie, who won the Croix de guerre in World War I, stuck to his Wall Street bond business, worried about Government extravagance, watched Daughter Theodora kick up her heels as a professional dancer and son Archie Jr. kick up his as an American Youth Congress leader. Archie Sr. finally enlisted. He landed in New Guinea with the 41st Division. Last week he was heard from...
...socks he had on the day of the murder. Police testified that he had said he "hated him [Sir Harry] because he was a stupid old fool who couldn't be reasoned with." Sir Harry's manager, Newell Kelly, testified that De Marigny had threatened to kick his father...