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Word: kicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Menace come to life, half-pint hellions who drive parents and teachers to distraction with their disruptive antics. At home they clamber on kitchen counters, unscrew light bulbs and mess up the simplest tasks, from hanging up their clothes to making the bed. In school they throw erasers, kick desks, shove classmates and are so busy making nuisances of themselves that they fail to absorb their lessons. One bedeviled mother speaks for many when she says, "I would have given the kid away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Worries About Overactive Kids | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...atmospheric pressures that allow stars to collide. Director Mike Nichols knows this in his bones. He encourages Weaver to play (brilliantly) an airy shrew. He gives Ford a boyish buoyancy and Griffith the chance to be a grownup mesmerizer. When Tess and Jack kiss, Nichols has Griffith kick one leg back in the old-fashioned signal of innocent lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Bucs won the overtime coin toss and choose to kick off with a stiff wind at their backs on the frigid day. Sammy Martin's 34-yard return gave the Patriots the ball at their 35-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Staurovsky's OT Kick Beats Bucs, 10-7 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

After an incompletion, Eason found Fryar for 26 yards and a first down at the Bucs' 14. John Stephens then ran 2 and 3 yards to set up the winning kick by Staurovsky, who missed a 27-yarder on the last play of a 24-21 loss to Indianapolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Staurovsky's OT Kick Beats Bucs, 10-7 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...another cigarette and looked at the dental-supply company's bill again. The minutes went by with their fingers to their lips. Then there was a small knocking on wood. It was a blond. A blond to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looked by moonlight. She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. "Cops are just people," she said irrelevantly. "They start out that way, I've heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Private Eye, Public Conscience | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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