Word: kickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey added the extra point on a place kick...
Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson had more good news. He found more harvested wheat in farm bins than he had expected. The total, as of April 1, was 204,000,000 bushels. If farmers would now kick loose more of their binned wheat, the U.S. could safely figure on making good its promise to famine areas...
Juan Peron took satisfaction in dealing a swift kick to the men he once called "those 500 bums in the Stock Exchange." To run the new bank the Argentine strong man picked stout, fiftyish Miguel Miranda, who learned to take orders long ago as president of the government-controlled Industrial Bank. Out of their positions as head of the Stock Exchange and of the potent Industrial Union (equivalent to the National Association of Manufacturers) went Eustaquio Mendez Delfino and Luis Colombo, whose opposition to Peron's campaign-timed bonus and wage-rise decrees had not been forgiven. Into their...
...cheerfully shouted: "Cowards!" When the sound track jammed as Ivan received a chess set from Queen Elizabeth, someone in the balcony yelped: "Speech!" In the long scene where Ivan almost dies, the theater rustled with smothered laughter and one strident voice speared up from the dark: "Alors, mon vieux, kick the bucket and we'll all go home...
...Said one of them, Fred Haas Jr.: "It cost me $6,000 to expense myself through 25 tourneys last year. That's costly." Almost the only amateurs left were well-to-do businessmen who can break par, but cannot break into the Big 20. They get a kick out of being in the same tournament with golf's big names...