Word: kicked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will work seven days a week, after that five days. He broke into radio in 1935 when the Washington Times gave him $10 a week extra to broadcast its news program. Three years later he found a $100-a-week sponsor, Thompson's Dairy, but was expected to kick back 40% of his check to the paper. Godwin asked the dairy to make out two checks, one for $60 and one for $40. "Then I thought it was unfair for Cissie [Patterson] to take my money so I put the $60 check in my pocket and let the paper...
...kick an Englishman in the stomach today, in the teeth tomorrow and on his behind the day after, he will be unable to stand it. His command cannot adapt itself to such measures...
Australian football is played 18 men to a side on an oval field whose measurements are 180 yards by 120. There are two sets of goalposts at each end of the field. If the ball is kicked between the tall center posts, six points are scored : between the adjoining posts one point. There is no crossbar. American ex-footballers say the game produces the finest and most accurate kicking they've ever seen: frequently players running full speed can drop-kick the ball between goalposts from 60 yards and more...
...kick an Englishman in the stomach today, in the teeth tomorrow and on his behind the day after, he will be unable to stand it. His command cannot adapt itself to such measures...
...together and talked Dunkirk, Spitfires, Hitler and romantic poetry. "It was exciting to hear Winston Churchill recite Shakespeare. On and on his sonorous voice rolled. He was acting the part now. He was Hamlet, and not a word in a long passage did he miss." Reynolds got a great kick out of London's worst aerial blitz, writes his report of it in semi-cablese: . . . THE BLITZ WAS AT ITS VERY HEIGHT AND MORE THAN ONCE THE BIG SAVOY SHOOK UNDER THE PARAGRAPH QUOTE EYE WONDER HOW MANY OF US WILL BE ALIVE IN THE MORNING UNQUOTE A WOMAN...