Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, the Wirless Club announced that it would transmit, free of charge, messages to any friends or relatives of students that it could contact in Great Britain or Europe. Additional equipment had given the transmitter a 1000-watt kick (the FCC maximum) by that date, and W1AF had already circled the globe, establishing contact with a British ham in New Zealand...
...only is "Love Happy" disappointing in its exceptional incoherence but also in presentation of Groucho's forte, the dialogue, which loses its kick when the mustachioed leer is missing. The special effects like Harpo's trick coat and the much heralded chase are up to standard but there is nothing side-splitting like the stateroom scene in "A Night at the Opera" or the mirror scene from "Duck Soup." "Love Happy," while not nearly up to Marxian standards is still pretty good comedy...
...hard to tell who get more of a kick out of Stuffy McInnis, the fathers or the kids, when the head baseball coach spoke at a father and son meeting of the Harvard Mutual Benefit Association at Phillips Brooks House last night...
...Navy gave up, announced dejectedly that they would try again at the next spring tide in February. Every night, for all to see, two red lights hung at the Missouri's yardarm. They indicated that the ship was aground, as humiliating for a ship's captain as "kick me" chalked on the seat of a small boy's pants...
...Wilt lagged along in last place. The announcer gave the time for the quarter: 60.3. That was just about what Wilt had counted on. He couldn't afford a slow pace. Because he lacked the kind of speed that allows a man to burst into a blazing "big kick" finish, Wilt held to the strategy of keeping the field stepping along so that no one else could save up for a big kick. He let out a notch, moved into second place and then brushed by Ireland's John Barry to grab the lead...