Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition and sentimentality. "We spit on Bonny Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald. on Rizzio's blood and Mary Queen of Scots. [But of all Company Directors in the City of London and overseas ... of Scottish origin we lick the shoes; all Scotsmen who have succeeded at the English bar are remembered nightly in our orisons...
...philosophy, they'll probably make it. "Cross country running is mainly a test of endurance. Not so much the physical kind, but the mental toughness to go ahead when you're tired. The ones that ran here were awfully determined. Not the fastest in the world, but hard to lick." In fact, they licked everybody else. "They've done quite...
Will you please tell me what the hell is the use for parents and teachers to spend time instructing their children not to lick their fingers, and then to see you print a picture of the President licking his at the $100-a-plate Republican dinner [TIME, Oct. 26]? Surely there must have been a napkin lying around somewhere...
...family. Then everybody sat down to a solid country dinner-fried chicken, acorn squash, mashed potatoes, string beans with bacon drippings, cider and green apple pie. King Paul explained that he preferred white meat, but the Queen, he said, liked dark meat, and "between us, we lick the platter clean." Then, to the astonishment of the Smiths, he recited the Jack Sprat nursery rhyme and promptly cleaned his own platter...
...years. Sunkist's researchers are at work on the orange mystery, trying to discover if it is the smog, the lack of rain, or some unnamed malady that stunts the oranges. But Sunkist's 14,000 fruit growers are sure that Armstrong and his researchers will lick these problems, as they have others in the past...