Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruggers took a three point lead when John Cotter converted a penalty kick near the end of the first half. The game was quickly tied when a M.I.T. player followed up his own penalty kick for a score. M.I.T. failed to convert and the match remained tied...
Charlie Sprague, a schoolteacher and Washington state school official before he went into newspaper work, mellowed the Statesman's traditional language but kept the hundred-proof kick when he bought the paper in 1929. He "got it by the simple, old-fashioned method of making a down payment and going into debt for the rest, paying it off over the years." In 1938, he was elected governor, but, lacking a politician's practical sense, ran into trouble. (Once, on the advice of an aide, he wore spats at a public ceremony, thus alienated thousands of frontier-minded Oregonians...
...contrary to policy to take action in cities. Tobey exploded like a rusty pinwheel. "You did nothing. You were a cipher, a zero!" he roared. "If I were the governor of this state, I would give you just five minutes to get out of the place or I would kick you out." Mumbled Gaffney humbly: "I am glad you aren't the governor...
...Strandlund, inventor of the Lustron prefabricated house and one of the most unsuccessful big businessmen in the nation, did little to mend matters. He claimed angrily that RFC Director Walter L. Dunham of Detroit (who said he had a heart condition which would permit his appearing privately, but would kick up if he talked in public) had participated with Young and others in a scheme to seize control of the Lustron Corp. Dunham, said Strandlund, put on pressure to make him sell 60,000 of his shares of Lustron stock "without compensation." Strandlund said he refused, and that soon after...
...time college basketball, the commercialized, Madison Square Garden variety, got another brutal kick in the teeth-the worst yet, in a game already punchy from its own scandals. Three stars of the City College of New York team, national champions last year, were arrested for throwing games for money. They were All-America Forward Ed Warner, Center Ed Roman, Guard Al Roth. Arrested with them as "go-betweens" were Connie Schaff, a member of this year's New York University team, and Ed Gard, of last year's Long Island University team. Rounding out the little group...