Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Lick, Ind. (pop. 2,000), a quiet spa, has a special place in the nostalgia of the Democratic Party. There the pre-F.D.R. generation of Democratic leaders were wont to gather before and after election-time, consuming mint juleps, Pluto water ("If nature won't, Pluto will") and the salty wisdom of Indiana's late boss, Tom Taggart. Last week the Democrats, their blood up, went back to French Lick to consider how their party might be reinvigorated for 1956. "There is no question but what we will focus our guns on the President himself...
Observers at French Lick noted that the Democratic word-fire was concentrated against four special Republican targets: 1) Eisenhower is a puppet of Big Business; 2) Eisenhower has no feeling for human needs; 3) Eisenhower plays too much golf; 4) Eisenhower likes Nixon...
...Democrats at French Lick read with approval the remarks of Fellow Democrat Jack Kroll, director of the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Speaking at Milwaukee, Kroll cried that President Eisenhower was running "the most corrupt Administration this country has had since the Harding regime . . . [It is] the Big Mink Administration . . ." While all this is going on, said Jack Kroll, the newspapers "continue to tell us how popular Ike is, what his golf score is and where he's vacationing this week...
...make you believe any man who has a reverent dislike for dogs is a rotter who would water his children's milk to cut down on his overhead. Why should a dog with whom I have nothing in common . . . be given the right to bound over me and lick my face? Why should I walk along a darkened street with an unleashed hound sniffing around my ankles as if I were a mobile hydrant...
...covered by a layer of cool, dry air. The wind had to be strong and in the right direction, and the warm air at the surface had to be subject to a strong lifting action. When these conditions (and more subtle ones) coincided, a tornado was likely to lick out from the black center of a cloud...