Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publisher Allen charged that corruption flourished in Fort Worth under a syndicate headed by a Dallas state law enforcement officer (whom he did not name). The editorial said that an estimated 1,500 pinball machines in Fort Worth were operating without paying the $250 annual state tax, but did kick back $10 a week to the syndicate. It also charged that an unidentified politician had said "he only takes his cut because he wants to be in the race for lieutenant governor...
...Cairns led most of the way to win the 1000 by 16 yards in the creditable time of 2:16. Dick Wharton, however, had to come on with a tremendous finishing kick to edge Dartmouth's Dick Schad for second...
...greatest weightlifter, for this proves to the world beyond a doubt that the United States is economically powerful. And Rev. Bob Richards' ability in the polevault has an obvious relationship to American development to guided missiles, while the fate of the fleet rests entirely upon the well-groomed kick of our finny friends at Yale and Ohio State...
...surface-to-surface missiles of anything except extreme range. Army doctrine is that missiles are fine things, but they must be rugged, transportable, and easily concealed. Most important of all, they must be "G.I.-proof"; they will be under the care of plain soldiers, who will drop them, kick them, neglect them, spill ketchup on them. If made like laboratory instruments, they will not perform on the battlefield worth a G.I. damn...
Abraham Lincoln and a judge friend were bent over a chessboard when the little boy first announced that dinner was ready. Lincoln promised to come home but went on with the game. A second, more urgent call went totally unheeded. Furious, the boy marched forward and with one good kick sent board and chessmen spinning into the air. Calmly, Lincoln took the boy's hand, and turning at the door with a good-natured smile, said: "Well, Judge, I reckon we'll have to finish this game some other time." Said the judge later: "If that little rascal...