Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, La Grange, Illinois, or even New Haven has heard of the Harvard-Yale rivalry, which has extended since the time "Harvard was old Harvard when Yale was but a pup." Football games between the Crimson and the Blue have made the names of Charley Brickley, the great place-kick specialist, Charlie Buell, another great kicker and field general, and Eddy Mahan, the wonder back, familiar to generations of Harvard...
...clubs have given the Bureau so much personal advice and practical encouragement that by now Miss Williams is not sure always whether her procedures grew out of her own thinking or the clubs' suggesting. But either way I can't deny that we all get a great kick out of finding that a "man's magazine" like TIME is playing such a major part in the activities of the country's women's clubs...
Better than the Truth. This dispatch was a kick in the teeth for Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces, and the man to whom the U.S. people look for accurate reports on the quality of U.S. fighting planes. Only last fortnight, at a press conference called expressly to give Washington correspondents the truth, General Arnold had been asked about a report that U.S. fighter pilots were using British Spitfires in preference to available U.S. fighters. General Arnold called this report "a flat...
...Bulgars, to whom Adolf Hitler threw Macedonia and Thrace, immediately slaughtered 10,000 Greeks, drove 70,000 more from their homes. Money cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
...ports were being nastily diverted northward, how much reinforcement had been received from the battle-trained Royal Canadian Air Force, what preparations were afoot to dislodge the Japs. Plain to see was that, although Japan had paid a heavy price for its Aleutian foothold, if the U.S. intended to kick the Jap out, the U.S., too, would...