Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Price insurance plans under which farmers would kick in premiums against disaster in the market place...
Laski argued that if intellectuals did not "kick" about previous investigations, when business men, "the real backbone of this country," were being probed, and when "Costello was unfairly tried by Kefauver in New York," they had no right to talk about the present investigations...
...budget to $146 million, started a $50 million building program, streamlined his schools from top to bottom. He raised teachers' salaries almost 50%, relieved them once & for all from political pressure. "They'd come to me," he recalls, "and say: 'Do I still have to kick in to my ward captain? Do I have to ring doorbells in the next election?' And I would tell them: 'Those days are gone forever...
Pianist Judith Yaeger, winner of the Pierian Sodality's annual concerto contest, soloed in the Schumann Concerto. The Radcliffe Senior started shakily, but after she regained her composure in the middle of the first movement, she made the old warhorse kick its heels. Purists may object to the more liberties she took with the score; but after hearing her coquettish interpretation of the second movement, I cast my vote for impurity...
...would be announced or begun without approval of the full committee. Some Republicans in Congress were furious, and wanted to fire Velde from his chairmanship. Such talk ended abruptly when New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. offered a formal resolution asking the House to censure Velde and kick him out of his job. Junior's resolution (which will doubtless die in the Rules Committee) made Velde a party issue, and Republicans quickly closed ranks beside him. This will not disappoint the Democrats, who like to keep Velde's kind of bumbling Republican in the headlines...