Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy's controversy with Eisenhower and with a growing number of Republican Senators is his insistence that his crusade against Communists justifies any tactics, including those that disrupt the executive branch of the Government. Contrary to law, Roughneck Joe McCarthy ("I am going to kick the brains out of anyone who protects Communists") gets classified information from executive-branch underlings, boasts that he will continue to do so, and dares the Justice Department to indict...
...Marco Millions" had earlier been intended as a kick-off for the Harvard Theatre Fund, with all proceeds going to the University's newly-founded account...
...official supersonic speed record (755 m.p.h.) for military planes. The husky 20-ft. package of power is also being installed in Douglas' bat-winged fighter, the F4D Skyray, Convair's delta-winged F-102, Boeing's B-52 bomber, to give them an extra kick...
Winning the 440 by a step over Little, Alpers again astonished the Elis in the 880, the first time he ever ran this distance. Giegengack was trying for a sweep, entering Meader, Stanley, and Joe Albanese, all of whom have run under 1:56, but with a late kick, Alpers beat out Stanley for second, finishing a foot behind Meader. The winning time...
Students were continually crossing Broadway near Memorial Hall and Burr Lecture Hall while the air raid sirens sounded, and they deliberately disobeyed orders to take cover, Burke said. "Apparently the fellows get a kick out of laughing in the face of the law," he added...