Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy was still in the hospital when he learned that his older brother, Joe Kennedy Jr., had been killed on a bomber raid against German V-2 installations in Normandy (a sister, Kathleen-"Kick"-Kennedy, the Marchioness of Hartington, was killed in an air crash in France in 1948). Invalided out of the Navy, Jack Kennedy hooked up with International News Service, covered the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations and the Potsdam conference-and decided to run for the Massachusetts Eleventh District congressional seat being vacated by indestructible James Michael Curley, who had just been elected mayor...
...supply of Scotch and began to beat a retreat from Palmer Stadium. But nothing seemed to bother a lanky Princeton halfback named Dan Sachs-neither wind nor snow nor wet ball, nor well-drilled Dartmouth line. He scored almost every way possible, passing for one touchdown, running back a kick for another, intercepting a pass for a third, schussing over from scrimmage for a fourth. Fans with antifreeze and the determination to last out the afternoon saw Princeton and Sophomore Sachs take the Ivy League title...
...first indication of Johanson's condition came on the extra point after the first Yale touchdown. The Crimson line had opened a hole for the safety men to block the kick. When Johanson merely remained standing motionless, the Crimson coaches asked the umpire to check Johanson, who then complained of his loosened teeth...
...late. The extra-point place kick that might have earned a tie, wobbled wide. With only four minutes left, Rice Hero Hill kicked out of bounds on the Aggie 1-yd. line. Now the Owls were too far out of range to be caught, even as the Crow flew. The game ended in a great upset victory for the Owls, to wit: Rice 7, Texas...
...enjoyed the book had better skip the picture-as usual, Hollywood has changed the story. The new one does not end with "zymurgy." but with "clinch."' And besides, it sounds less like Webster than the Army Manual, read upside down and backwards at the top of a top kick's lungs. In short, OMB is routine regimental farce, but fast and snafurious...