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Word: kicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson got stuck deep inside its own territory when, on ensuing kickoff, both Gianelly and Cowles went for the ball, the latter catching it, but stumbling in his tracks on the seven. Botsford punted from a kick formation on their third down, one of the mysteries of the game, and Cornell took over on the Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Edges Highly Favored Cornell, 13-12 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...after having been temporarily closed, only 456 out of 1,562 students attended. Later the boycott spread to nearby Lincoln, where 116 out of 146 pupils refused to go to the elementary school. That night a motorcade cruised through the county with such banners as "Stay Out of School:", "Kick 'Em Out;" and in a field opposite the Milford high school, a wooden cross was set on fire. Finally the Milford school board decided to give in, ordered the eleven Negroes dropped from the rolls. Crowed Bryant Bowles: "The only thing black in the schools tomorrow will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Racial Flare-Up | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...most carpet-slippered father to vigilant attendance at the P.T.A. On his first day at North Manual Trades, earnest young English Instructor Richard Dadier stops a 17-year-old from raping a new instructor on the stairs. Within two weeks seven boys waylay Dadier in an alley and beat, kick and gouge him into insensibility. The horny-handed principal and the cynical older instructors are no help to Rick Dadier in his attempts to awaken his pupils' bored, backward minds. When one boy pulls a knife on him, Dadier fights furiously, gets his arm slashed -and the class suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...outguessing his own team. The Indians hated to play in the rain, but on fine fall days they could do anything. They made up plays to suit their fancy. Against Army in 1912, Jim Thorpe, the unstoppable Sac and Fox, scored 27 points* all by himself. Once, back in kick formation, he laughingly told the referee: "They think I'm gonna kick, but I ain't." He didn't; he charged 80 yards for a touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pop's Game | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...began his career by studying law at George Washington University while a Senate elevator boy, joined the legal staff of newly created CAB in 1939. At CAA he whittled the budget by $15 million; at CAB he cut mail payments by $13 million annually and got the carriers to kick back $11 million already paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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