Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the cracked oil goes into conventional fractionating towers from which emerge the various oils, gases and vapors that are 1) the base stock for making 100-octane gasoline; 2) special hydrocarbons from which are made the blending agents (alkylates) to kick up still higher the octane rating of the base stock; 3) other hydrocarbons which are the raw materials for alcohols and butadiene...
...most interesting figures brought out by our survey is that TIME is now read by even more women than men - by about 10,000 more women, in fact. But the thing we get the greatest kick out of is still the pleasant fact that you vote 7 to 1 that TIME is your favorite magazine among all the magazines you read...
...wounded off," said he, "then got the rest of the men off. I had to kick one man in the pants to get him to leave. The captain told us all to get off, and I went over into the water on a line. The water was covered with oil and was on fire forward. We were in the water about two and a half hours, collecting in little groups...
...Paris, Dali found the sight of "a legless blind man sitting in his little cart," tapping the sidewalk "with a boundless self-assurance," so repugnant that he "went up to the blind man and . . . gave him a kick that sent him scooting all the way across the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet...
...TIME said of Vice President Wallace that he had failed to grow up as a politico, that in consequence, to professional politicians, "he would always have a kick-me note attached to his coat-tails." (TIME also took note of his qualities of thoughtfulness and idealism.) If Philosopher Durant regards this as roughneck editorial opinion, TIME is sorry but unconvinced...