Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial statement made for Treasury investigators last fall, Bolich (rhymes with toe-kick) explained that his salary was supplemented a bit by "gifts" from friends. Carl F. Routzahn, an Ohio department-store executive, for example, contributed a $20,000 summer home, a $2,500 Chrysler and $400 a month in cash, delivered discreetly in small bills. And his hotel suite was paid for by Henry ("the Dutchman") Grunewald, the professional fixer who has turned up in several previous investigations...
Wylie's next-in-line, Dave McGiffert, made the first touchdown. Then, in the second half, Captain Brad Lundborg broke through the Tech forwards for another touchdown. Later, the Engineers scored from a penalty kick and made the tally 6 to 3. Ex-Princetonian George Sella, playing breakaway forward, made the final touchdown...
...quasi-pragmatist I got quite a kick from your Adler article . . . Perhaps education is a racket, but as any high-school lad knows, there is none bigger than selling "Great Books" to hopeful parents, whereupon they collect dust and provide quarters for termites in the parlor...
...digitalis stays in the system much longer than had been thought; next, they hope to learn in far greater detail how it works, and how the body ultimately disposes of it. They are also growing radioactive belladonna to make radioactive atropine, and white poppies to give morphine an atomic kick...
...They like their own everyday dishes, berries, roots and snake meat, better. As for all the other benefits of civilization, only the sewage system impresses them. Their loose loincloths, they say, are far superior to tight-fitting civilized clothing, and their own home brew, made from melons, has more kick than the white man's firewater...