Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range steers, but so many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump off his horse, wrestle the calf on its side, loop three of its legs with a "pigging string," and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" hitch. Expert ropers...
Every year, the small auto finance companies that make up the American Finance Conference kick off their annual convention with a blast against their special foe: giant General Motors Acceptance Corp., the sales finance subsidiary of General Motors. They kicked again last week in Washington, and with new fury. Unless G.M.A.C. is quickly curbed, complained Richard Meier, chair man of the A.F.C. executive committee, there may soon be no "independents" left. In the past five years, says Meier, the number of independent auto finance companies has shrunk from...
...Punt and kick-off receiving plays were given attention, and downfield blocking assignments were checked...
...afternoon opened with Drown looking just as an Ivy League cellar dweller should. The Bruins fumbled the opening kick-off on their own 28 and Crimson captain Dick Diehl out-scrambled three Bruins for possession...
...Brown halfback Jan Moyer held on to the next Crimson kick-off and his 26 yard return was quickly followed by a long Dunda pass putting Brown inside the Harvard 40-yard line. The Crimson defense, impressed by Dunda's throwing prowess, held back for another serial attempt...