Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lexicographer Partridge ordered a batch of addenda bound in to catch such sprouts, new to him, as winchell (a swindler's victim), boodled (loaded with cash), cooties' reveille (lights-out in the cells), hoochie-papping (stealing another man's girl), goof ball (marijuana smoker) and mouse-kick (watch-pocket...
...that Ezio Pinza "has shown there is a place on Broadway for serious voices," Patrice is even thinking seriously of going there herself. Says she: "I'm an incurable ham, and nothing gives me a bigger kick than getting a laugh or bringing the house down with a song...
...Harvard President James Bryant Conant, who told the story last week, the boy's philosophy is a justified kick in the pants for most U.S. educators. They have been so busy tailoring curriculums for the average and the least able that they have "largely neglected" the most able, i.e., the top 10% intellectually. One significant reflection of the neglect: fully half of the young people in the top 10% never get to college. This week the Educational Policies Commission issued a 100-page report, Education of the Gifted, supervised by Conant, with an analysis of the problem and recommendations...
Throw them into the ocean . . . Don't let your life be sour-Kick him out, that Adenauer...
...Beverley grew into pretty babies, more than doubled their weight in 5½ months. Often one twin was wakeful while the other slept, or laughed while her sister cried. With four hands to reach for a bottle, feeding was sometimes a comedy of errors. With four legs to kick, diapering was doubly difficult. Sometimes Brenda put her fingers in Beverley's mouth, or the other way around...