Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west Texas where we come from," said one calloused driller, "there's no water around. We operate dry as horned toads. They bring us down to Louisiana, and there's the ocean! We'll lick the s.o.b." No one who knows the oilmen doubts that they will...
...world's standards he is a rich dead beat who has never done a lick of work in his 36 years. Born in America and educated in England, Stephen goes to Berlin in the '20s as "a runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes...
...more conventional effort to map the Milky Way galaxy has just been completed at Lick Observatory, Calif. Dr. C. D. Shane announced last week that he and his observer. C. A. Wirtanen, have just finished a picture of the northern hemisphere sky. The job took seven years and required 1,246 plates, each 17 inches square and exposed for two hours. If all the plates were assembled on a single surface (not likely to be done), the picture would be about 50 feet square...
...Pimpernel and countless Napoleonic pictures show. But they always beat the rest of Europe, and delight in thrashing picturesque Arabs. After the French, there is no really powerful nation always assured of the victory our favor brings. Generally, though, an underdog people or nation can be counted on to lick the oppressor, especially if an itinerant American adventurer falls in love with the rebel leader's daughter (played by Patricia Medina...
...while it appeared that TV might escape the sudsy flood of soap operas. Almost all the original woebegone TV serials faded away in a matter of months. But Sponsor Procter & Gamble, which pays the way for eight radio soap operas, has learned how to lick the TV jinx. Explains Adman Roy Winsor of the Biow Co. advertising agency: "At first, we made the mistake of taking a single soap opera and sticking it into a 15-minute strip surrounded by other kinds of shows. It just got lost. Now we do it by block programming...