Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the game is close and the play is roughest," Ernie Davis once said, "you forget the crowd and the noise, and it is just you against somebody else to see who is the better man." Even in grade school, Ernie could always run faster and throw harder and kick farther than anybody else who booted scuffed old footballs around the sooty playgrounds of Uniontown, Pa. He was the product of poverty and a broken home, a shy, sensitive boy who dreamed of playing halfback for Notre Dame. His heroes were men like Stan Musial and Johnny Lujack, whose special...
...nears the plate; a curve that breaks to his right; a screwball that breaks left; and a slider-a modified fast ball that veers slightly inside to a right-handed batter. Every pitch starts with precisely the same motion: a long, slow rock-back, a high fluid kick, and a flurry of arms and legs that "makes the ball look as though it is coming right out of my uniform." And then there is his control. "Home plate is 17 inches wide," he says. "But I ignore the middle 12 inches. I couldn't throw one down the pipe...
...thank you. But Mr. Luce does everything on a grand scale, and on the 25th anniversary of LIFE he did a 90-minute TV show with me as the star, and now he has invited me here. Mr. Luce obviously has vision, intelligence -and amnesia ... I get a personal kick just seeing all these wonderful public servants up here from Washington. I think it is just marvelous, I really do, because it is a kind of tough time to leave Washington, when all the cherry trees and all the Kennedys are in bloom." The introductions that followed were dotted with...
Szili went to bed. But he was awakened by a military policeman, who told him that Jackson had found Lopez snooping around an ammunition storage area, arrested the Cuban, and now wanted help. Szili joined Jackson, and the two took Lopez to a long-unused rear gate to kick him off the base. But they found the lock rusted tight, and Szili went away to get a sledge hammer...
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