Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck by students' moral courage today," he continued. "I still feel that they get a little self-righteous, but this is because they are still young. You don't get experience out of a book, you have to get a good kick in the behind...
...meeting about bussing schoolchildren. Next day, Newhall's anger exploded on the editorial page: "As of this moment we do not know the identity of these preposterous boors, but when we find out, the aging executive editor of this newspaper is going to do his best to kick their teeth right through the back of their heads...
...fuel probably gets an extra kick from a high-energy chemical additive, and the mighty engines can drive the SR-71 in a missile-like ballistic curve that takes the plane above 97% of the earth's atmosphere. Yet even in the rarefied upper atmosphere, the surface temperature of the plane's leading edges hits 630°, enough to heat the Blackbird's titanium skin to cherry-red incandescence. An intricate system of pumps and pipelines circulates fuel near enough to the skin to absorb heat and carry it to cooler parts of the plane where...
...Zeppelin, where Good Guy Oliver Reed battles Baddies Curt Jurgens and Telly Savalas with swords, fists and some unlikely ingenuity. During the course of the proceedings, there are enough bombings, murders and conflagrations to satisfy the most television-sated kid in the crowd. Even some parents may get a kick out of Bureau, especially if they come prepared with fistfuls of Good and Plenty for ammo...
...This final check produced another 4223 eligible voting members since many alumni were also faculty and officers, while many graduate students were both alumni and students. Brown sees two reasons for these mistakes. First, some older alumni like their low Coop Card numbers, just as some people get a kick out of low license-plate numbers. These alumni purposely register in the wrong categories in order to keep their numbers...