Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pugnacious General James Van Fleet "was eager for the Communists to jump off with their offensive - if they were ever going to. Said he grimly: "A Communist offensive would give us the chance to slaughter them. That way we could get them in wholesale lots, and not have to kick them piecemeal out of the hills the way we are doing...
Justice William O. Douglas, who had 23 ribs cracked when his horse fell on him two years ago, had another horse kick him in the shin last year, arrived in New Delhi after a hike through the Himalayan mountains. The record this time: one toss from a frisky yak, two falls from a mule. Damage: a sprained wrist, an aching back...
...price up some himself. There was evidence that Flurey would tell its regular customers that it had no nickel, said Gould, then sell what it had to Roman at a markup. Roman would then go to Flurey's desperate customers, resell the nickel at another markup, and kick back some of the profit to Flug and Corey. Called as a witness, Roman himself clammed up on constitutional grounds. Flug and Corey were nowhere to be found...
...Manhattan. In his world-girdling trips, he keeps a sharp eye open for new businesses. Says Soriano: "I'm neither an introvert, a handshaker nor a patter on the back. If there's anything I enjoy doing, it's planning big industries. I get a kick...
...weary of the daily stint on the office treadmill. He detests his pretentious "neo-Georgian" home in Oakdale, a genteel Midwestern suburb. Most of all he hates "the goddamn blood-drinking octopus" he married. Enid Ferris is one of those primly efficient young matrons who know how to place-kick an indulgent husband over the goal posts of a cash culture to make a social score. But Enid is all take and no give. Frigidly squeamish about the claims of the flesh, she chills Ferris' love-making with protests like: "Don't! Where did you learn such...