Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other wretched trumpery of sans culotte foolery!" But President George Washington soon had his fill of Citizen Genêt's pleading with the American people for U.S. help to France over the heads of the U.S. Government, and the nuisance he was making of himself trying to kick up an expedition of American adventurers against the U.S.'s Spanish neighbors in Florida. Thundered the President: "What must the world think of such conduct and the government of the United States in submitting to it?" He called in his Cabinet and decided to demand...
Glamour, in the despairing Berlin of the early '30s, wore the face of "a disillusioned child singing outside a public house." The voice was husky with melancholy, the song a loose shrug of defiance: // someone's going to kick, it's going to be me And if someone gets kicked...
Disciplined and undissipated, the Brazilians played as if their national honor was at stake. And indeed it was. Back home, President Juscelino Kubitschek had postponed important political conferences, Vice President João Goulart adjourned the Senate, great crowds gathered in the public squares to listen to kick-by-kick accounts of the games. Well aware that their country was headed for a long spasm of mourning if they lost, the Brazilians never gave the Swedes a chance. They won going away, 5-2. And they headed for home confident of being welcomed as heroes-beyond any argument, the finest...
...Aussies came into the final lap with 3 min. 3.8 sec. gone. It hardly seemed probable that they would crack four minutes. But now that the race belonged to them, they both dug in. They sprinted through the last lap like fresh quarter-milers. Lincoln's fine finishing kick brought him to the finish in 3:58.5. But Herb Elliott's incredible condition brought him home even faster than that. He was timed in 3:57.9, a fleeting tenth of a second faster than Aussie John Landy's listed world's record...
...pace setters faded, and Delany's bobbing stride began to break apart. He looked more and more like a man in a bowler hat trying to catch a tram. Tabori came on to make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition was only the clock, and he fell...