Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woods tells of being as signed to a story which seemed to have neither long ears nor a mule's kick. It was the Second International Gerontological Congress, a group which is concerned with the troubles of the aging. He found his story, however, by attending a session when the venerable baseball pitcher, Satchel Paige, turned up. Correspondent Woods's report: "For two solid hours, Ole Satch held the scientists spellbound with inside tips on how he maintained his terrifying 'nuthin' ball' despite his advanced years. Samples of his anti-old age prescriptions...
...millionaires," the 95,000 with incomes over $50,000 a year will kick in only about $4.4 billion...
...Anglo-Irish are the most serious kind of people in the world. They have reason to be-they know something. They know that nobody wants sense. What people are looking for all the time is a kick. They knew it some time before the rest of the world, and the world has never caught...
...months later, Mary Dansereau is the only human with a part-plastic heart. She will have to take life easy for a while, but even before she left the hospital she felt so much better that she was able to kick up a little...
...Grant. One boy testified that the superintendent had ordered him to hold on to two doorknobs, then lashed him with a fan belt. Another witness accused Guard Rudy Ramirez of going into inmates' rooms at night and whipping them for no apparent reason. "I saw [him] beat and kick another boy," said the witness. "He kicked him with his feet when he was down on the ground...