Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rallying businessmen and newspapers to his causes. Conceding that Lindenbusch stood to lose by at least 25,000 votes-a margin they hoped would narrow as the G.O.P. gained momentum in the years ahead-the Republicans brought in some outside political muscle. Arizona's Barry Goldwater helped kick off Lindenbusch's campaign. Into St. Louis came Jack Stiles, who directed the G.O.P. national registration drive last year, and Assistant National Committee Chairman Clare B. Williams...
...Mark Caine. In the clever guise of a self-help manual, this British book aims a good Swiftian kick at the cultists of success...
...platoon of half a hundred men and women, who moved into a rundown, three-story, red brick building that once was a National Guard armory. White and black, young and middleaged, criminals and innocents, artists and loafers, the unlikely assortment shared one trait: they were narcotics addicts determined to kick their habit for good...
...Something That Works." The technique was patterned roughly after the group-therapy methods of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Synanon system cannot work until the addict really decides that he wants to kick the habit; but after that, it promises critical discipline and confinement through the first bad days of withdrawal, followed by a psychological treatment that usually kills the desire. Dr. Cressey describes the psychology: "A group in which Criminal A joins with some noncriminals to change Criminal B is probably most effective in changing Criminal...
...performance, a surprise addition to the Pudding's annual spring tour of eastern Harvard Clubs, was arranged by Rockette Jean Kittell, the kick-line specialist for this years' show. Members of the Pudding cast will be guests of the Rockettes for the Music Hall's floor show, and will put on Pro and Con for the dancers in a basement auditorium during the showing of the feature movie...