Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, he won three races within eight days. One winter at Tropical Park he ran off with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding off the Admiral's bid until the homestretch, then...
Looked on with considerably suspicion at first, the Dooley and Dietz team now gets fair cooperation both from labor and management. Biggest kick of labor (especially from craft unions) was that Dooley-Dietz methods might replace the old-tie system of apprenticeships, break down the union's monopoly on education and create too many trained workers for too few skilled jobs at war's end. To hardworking Dooley and Dietz, faced by as many as six million new war workers in 1943, this objection will be academic for some time to come...
...successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have a kick-me note attached to his coattails...
Joel Ashley takes a good bite out of the juiciest part, that of Tiny, the cheerful extrovert. Claudia Morgan is somewhat less at home as Judith, though she snaps to life in the last act. Broun would probably get the biggest kick, though. out of the wise-cracking ball players portrayed by Karl Malden, Lewis Charles, and Fred Sherman. They talk his language, and it's the language the audience would have liked to hear more...
...first score was made in the second period when Lilley, Yale halfback, tallied on a free kick. The Elis came through again in the third quarter to make their second goal on a clean shot into the high left-hand corner of the Crimson net when George Caulkins booted the ball from his wing position...