Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took was a handful of telegrams and 20 telephone calls to kick Actress Jean Muir off the air as a "controversial personality" (TIME, Sept. 4). Networks, ad agencies and advertisers feared to have themselves identified with anyone accused, however justly or unjustly, of Communist sympathy. Last week, crowing over their victory against Actress Muir, a little group organized themselves as a special committee to keep the air waves pure...
...economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos had landed their fellow citizens a hard kick in the wallet...
...first hour, Florence swam fast -60 strokes a minute-to get away from the inshore current. Then she settled down to an eight-kick, 32-beat pace, broken only by pauses for lumps of sugar four times an hour. At 11:30 a.m., her father, following in a trawler, chalked a cheerful message on a blackboard: "Only three more miles...
...length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient supplies, together they tended the sick over an enormous area of jungle. Ellen was horrified when Aganza's primitive cure for a psychiatric case turned out to be a kick in the backside, but it seemed to work...
What Moscow took for a comforting backfire was actually the kick of a self-starter. The U.S. was just getting its draft machinery going again, after 17 months in dead storage. So far, few draftees had actually been inducted: men called up for examination got three weeks before reporting for service. Not until mid-September would sizable numbers of men (mostly at the top age of the draft call, 25 years old) be inducted. The nation's 3,659 local draft boards meanwhile were trying to update old files. The boards themselves had been snoozing in peacetime, and many...