Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lick the crisis, inflation...
Last week Dr. Patrick D. Pielou of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory at Belleville, Ont. told how he hopes to lick this problem. Dr. Pielou breeds friendly bugs called Macrocentrus (which attack the destructive Oriental fruit moth) and exposes each generation of them to DDT not quite strong enough to wipe them out. The survivors, says Dr. Pielou, grow progressively tougher. Eventually, he hopes, they will be able to ignore DDT. Then they will be released in orchards to mop up the fruit moths that have survived...
...could lick you yet, I guess...
Griff Buttock, who usually substitution at left halfback, went in at center forward and groped the Yearlings' first goal on a center from right wing Steve Joyee in 25 seconds of the second period. Joyee three minutes later, put in a lour, high Lick from 60 feet out for the second sere...
...Flags West [20th Century-Fox] is another "different" western with a Civil War setting. Among its surprises: 1) an unkissed Linda Darnell, 2) a battle in which the Indians lick the soldiers...