Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon burns himself in protest over the Vietnam war. As he shoots up in flames, he cries out to curious passerby: "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore...
...salary went to taxes, to her manager and to her family (John, two half brothers, a half sister, as well as her mother and stepfather). Much of what she had left she spent on phone calls back to Britain. Her half brother Donald still tells how he used to kick the family Welsh corgi, Humpty, to make him bark a transatlantic hello...
...early reels, the other teams concentrate ruthlessly on eliminating Brazil, the defending champion, and the only way to do that is to eliminate Pele (pronounced Pehleh), the Babe Ruth of soccer, a man who dribbles as daintily as a woman knits and then with a kick that could fell a rhino drives the ball into the net so fast the eye cannot follow it. Portugal finally does the dirty deed with a ferocious mousetrap: the man in front of Pele kicks his knee at the same instant the man behind him kicks his ankle. He goes down like a speared...
From Harlem to Harvard to Sunset Strip, the U.S. is on a demonstration kick. While collegians march against monogamy or multiversities, their once sedate mothers are mounting the barricades to battle school bussing or stop encroaching highway bulldozers. In one month, Philadelphia alone produced 15 demonstrations against such diverse targets as hard divorce laws, soft rape laws, slum landlords, black power, white power, and the Viet Nam war. Even the Janus Society hit the bricks, indignant because the Navy excludes homosexuals...
...people get you on any hate-Germany kick, either. You know how everybody hates the Nazis in this country? Well I'll tell you why. It's because they brought in the Reichmark which threatened to undercut the business of all the fat Jewish bankers in this country, that's why. And you know why Lincoln was killed? Because he was trying to bring in the green-back dollar, and the Jewish bankers wouldn't let him. The man who killed him, Booth, he was a member of the House of Warburg. The historians could find all this...