Word: kickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a bump to find that most people were clay after all. When his proletarian plays were staged by Dublin's Abbey Theater, many critics hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled in Peg o' My Heart; that the great Yeats himself...
Last week International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and Farnsworth officials helped kick it farther down the ladder. I.T. & T. had agreed to buy Farnsworth through an exchange of stock, one share of I.T. & T. for twelve of Farnsworth. Since I.T. & T. was selling for $9.25 and Farnsworth for $2.87, the deal meant that Farnsworth's trade-in value was only about 77? a share. That touched off a selling wave...
Kongsgaard relaxed as he picked up speed ("When the wind starts to bite, I am free from tension"), gave a strong kick as he reached the takeoff. A few seconds later the crowd let out a roar. His 290-ft. jump was 60.96 feet short of the world mark, but it had set a new U.S. (and North American) record, breaking the old one of 289 feet set by his late countryman, Torger Tokle* at Iron Mountain, Mich, seven years...
...hours before flight. Operation Haylift flew over rugged mountains which pilots nicknamed "Lower Slobbovia." To get feed close to the animals, the planes flew low (from 150 to 200 ft.) while airmen, muffled and goggled, toiled in a storm of freezing wind and flying chaff to kick bales out of open doors...
...special milestone. For several years Composer Porter had not been regarded as a sure-fire Broadway investment, in spite of the fact that five of his songs (Begin the Beguine, Just One of Those Things, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out of You) ranked last year among the 35 all-time U.S. popular favorites. (The record is matched only by Irving Berlin, and was not equaled by such Tin Pan Alley titans as Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers...