Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the Beatles were still in the heavy rock kick, Simon & Garfunkel were producing great intellect. When the Beatles can produce something like A Poem on The Underground Wall, or Sounds of Silence, they will be truly great...
...letter of protest was much milder than most of the antiwar mail that enters the White House each week, but it had its own special kick. "Viet Cong terrorism is real," it said. "So are the innocent victims of U.S. bombing, strafing and shelling." It went on to describe the war in Viet Nam as "an overwhelming atrocity." What made the letter unusual was that it was signed by 49 members of the International Voluntary Service, a private Peace Corps-like organization whose 170 staffers in Viet Nam exemplify the best of the U.S.'s outgoing altruism (TIME, April...
...demanding a 40% raise in salary over the next three years; the management is offering only a 15% hike. A first-year Rockette currently makes $99 a week, or $26 less than the lowest-paid Music Hall stagehand. That breaks down to $4.12 a performance or roughly 20 a kick. The dancers must rehearse 120 hours without pay for the nine new extravaganzas mounted every year at the Music Hall, perform four shows daily for 21 consecutive days followed by six days off. Even then they are on call as replacements, and friends of the Rockettes have learned...
Camel Droppings. After mastering the Rockettes' patented eye-high kick, explains Linda, the next most difficult task is simply learning how to survive on the Music Hall's big stage, a kind of block-long obstacle course with a jolting, linoleum-covered concrete floor. The three huge elevators that make up the sectional stage are so warped with age that they meet unevenly, varying as much as an inch in many spots. With that hazard, as well as puddles from a simulated April Showers, or droppings from camels in the Nativity pageant, or oil slick from a fleet...
...that point the Crimson defense allowed a long kick to bounce over the goalie's head into the net. Senior John Axten, with the wind and sun in his face, misjudged the play and leaped up in vain for the element-aided shot...