Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death of EDC, were playing a cat-and-mouse game, keeping him in office for their own purposes. Resigned to the inevitability of German rearmament, these expert infighters were determined to identify Mendès with that needed but unpopular measure. Then they meant to kick him out, perhaps on the Indo-China issue...
Sometimes one member of the team arrives late for game, and when this happens, they are usually faced with the prospect of playing one man short. At Princeton last fall just such a prospect was looming on the horizon, with 14 men on the field at kick-off time. All was not lost, however, as the fifteenth man arrived and changed in midfield, protected by a huddle of his teammates...
...Center as inadequate. The furniture just inside the front door is a collection of multi-colored leather chairs placed about a large red rug. Before settling down, the commuter must find a place for his coat on an overburdened clothes rack. In the basement, a student is apt to kick his locker rather than struggle with the old lock that opens the way to a minimum of space. Old ping pong tables, a billiard room with no pool table, and dingy lighting are all less than satisfactory. Even the television set hasn't been used for any length of time...
Novelist Taylor (This Side of Innocence) Caldwell, who with her husband had to kick in $47,696 in income-tax arrears last year, popped up in the revenuer's office in Buffalo. Unhappy topic of discussion: $40,987 which the Government claims she still owes on her past income from royalties and a partnership. Taylor collapsed on the revenuer's floor. Whisked off to a local hospital, she was pronounced in "good" shape at week...
...review of the possibilities, Gross stated that three types of revision were possible. He did not think advisable either a "punctuation conference," making only technical amendments to the charter, or a "show-down conference," attempting to "kick the Russians out." More probable, he though, is a "propaganda or educational conference...