Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more surprised if he had told them the sun had come up on schedule that morning. Rocky has been running hard for a long while. But he injected some fresh drama into the occasion by charging off to New Hampshire, where he planned a slam-bang handshaking tour to kick off his campaign. It was raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda in a drugstore...
Last summer a Brazilian farmer named Osório Fernandes took his don key Pelé with him to town. In the marketplace of Venceslau Guimarâes, a small boy began tormenting Pelé with a stick, and the donkey struck back-killing the boy with a kick in the head. Police Chief Emiliano Gonçalves had the farmer arrested, but Fernandes wept so profusely in his jail cell that Gonçalves changed his mind and locked up the donkey instead. The charge against the animal: murder. Osório Fernandes angrily leveled a charge...
...stud poker game: they are starting a cattle-breeding service with a number of Friesian bulls. But despite the fact that gambling built his own fortune of $30 million, Hill has not placed a bet for nearly ten years. He figures that he would not get a kick out of it if he won, and would be very annoyed if he lost. He has even become slightly moralistic about wagering. He advises Englishmen: "Don't bet. But if you have to, bet with William Hill...
Sophomore Doug Hall courageously left his slot in the scrum to pinch hit, but unfamiliar with the position and hampered by a shoulder injury, he found it difficult to catch the ball. On a wet day, the teams tend to kick much more, bringing the opposing fullbacks into important roles. Thus, inexperience worked to Princeton's advantage...
...after three illegal kicks, the Tigers had been moved back to their own 25 on three penalties. McCluskey took the fourth kick on the Harvard 45, broke slightly to the right and ran straight through the Princeton defense for six points. The kick for the extra point was blocked...