Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puts it on first thing in the morning, takes it off at bedtime), Riebel moved ponderously through the four Brewster plants (two in Long Island City, one in Newark, one in Johnsville, Pa.), shaking hands, telling everyone: "Call me Skippy." At first suspicious, workers soon got a kick out of calling the boss Skippy, got a bigger kick after he installed a huge new cafeteria in the final assembly plant at Johnsville, organized baseball teams, wangled the Government housing project for Johnsville. To get production on bombers, he balanced the flow of materials...
...prettiest plays in sport is soccer's "corner kick"-a free kick booted from the corner of the field toward the players of both teams, who try to kick or butt the ball into the net or down the field. In The Bronx's Starlight Park this week, corner kicks and other fancy head-and-footwork were executed with rare artistry. The performers were the two foremost big-league outfits in the U.S.: the Brooklyn Hispanos and Pittsburgh's Morgan Strassers, facing each other in soccer's equivalent of the baseball World's Series...
...Bill Gonsalves, who works as a mechanic at the Worthington Pump Co. when he is not playing soccer, is a 200-lb. six-footer with a tremendous kick in his massive legs. One of soccer's hardest shots, he can boot a ball fast enough to break a man's hand. From 20 yards he has often broken the goal's netting. Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues...
...injunction proceeding the teachers again tried to halt the Board's inroads. One principal testified that a Board member told him: "If each teacher will give me $25, they will get their raises." Other testimony: one politician offered raises and a closed shop if about 250 teachers would kick in $100 each; one teacher slipped a roll of bills to a Board member and got a $400 raise; bricks ordered for schools were built into Board members' saloons and homes; an $1,800 school fence was moved to the home of a Board member's daughter...
...pretty fascinating to think of people in Buenos Aires and Trinidad-in London and Cairo-in Liberia and Iceland and way out in the Aleutians-all reading TIME while you and I are still reading the same issue here at home-and I thought you might get a kick...