Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many were so chary of his charm. Scores of the oats-feeling young Congressmen went away impressed almost to the point of real fondness for the President. Two days later the normal reaction came. The House, 268-to-129, figuratively aimed a swift kick at the President by adopting the Disney bill (see p. 12), in angry and direct repudiation of Government by directive...
...showing the stamina gained in years of crosscountry running. He kept well behind Defending Champion Gilbert Dodds, the Boston divinity student who invariably sets an exhausting pace from gun to gun. At least 12 yards behind as they went into the final lap, Dixon came through with a finishing kick that beat Dodds by a full yard. Time: 4 min. 9.6 sec.-only 2.2 seconds behind the world's indoor record. If Frank Dixon was not a Jesse Owens of the Mile, he was decidedly impressive...
...Gregory Rice, a pony-sized runner with a Percheron kick, is the fastest distance racer ever developed in the U.S. Despite a triple hernia that has kept him out of the services, he has won 57 consecutive races (the great Paavo Nurmi won only 50), has whittled down the indoor records for two and three miles to 8:51.1 and 13:45.7 respectively. Last week, in his first race since pulling a tendon in his heel three months ago, Rice beat his nearest rival over two miles by 55 yards. But his time was not unusual...
...them go. You can't hold them. When we do that, there isn't a way in God's world that we can keep John Lewis and Phil Murray from coming in for more wages and getting them. It will kick right back on the farmer in the shape of more costs for labor and machinery. He won't have a thing more when it's all over. But we'll all have been on a hell of a merry-go-round...
...second rate musical, the spectator finds a gripping tale of espionage in blacked out London. To be sure. Warren William as the suave Lone Wolf saves the girl and the British Isles, but by that time half of the audience has collapsed from the suspense. His endearing side-kick, Eric Blore, ambles through the greatest dangers with obstinate indifference...