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While being wheeled out of the chamber, he told a wellwisher: "I'm alive and kickin'. Well, not exactly kickin', but I'm alive and I aim to be alive a long time yet." His brother Jack, a judge, translates: "Of course he is running." There are other signs. The Governor has begun spending long hours on the phone with political allies all over the state and has revived his national newsletter, The Wallace Stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Wallace's Tortured Comeback | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...time I come to town, The boys keep kickin' my dawg aroun'; Makes no dif'rence if he is a houn' They gotta quit kickin' my dawg aroun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Quit Kickin1 My Dawg Aroun1 ' | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain Joe & the Old Man | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Kickin' a Hole in the Sky and Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love (Columbia)?Best tunes from the cinema Be Yourself, played by the Ipana (Toothpaste) Troubadours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...hopen! SCENE NO. 4: Battel of Vaterloo. - In the background you vill notice Napoleon, behind a tree, him a taking precious good care to be out of 'arm's vay, and a lookin' occasionally at the redcoats thro' a small spyglass, occasionally a stampin' of his foot and a kickin' of his unoffendin' 'oss, vich had nothink for to do with his defeat! In the foreground you vill hobserve the Duky Vellinkton a valkin' amid the cannon-balls, him not carin' one straw for the smell of powder or the flying bullets, a wavin' of his 'at and a laffin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH SHOWMAN. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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