Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, a salesman earnestly buttonholed a doubtful customer. "They'll never lick this thing," he cried. "It's too big. With Marshall Plan and arms for Europe, and if we should have another war-God forbid-who knows when there'll be color television? Better take this set right now . . ." In Washington, another dealer moaned: "Yesterday I sold exactly one receiver. Normally, I'd get rid of 30 to 50 in one day." Across the nation, other TV dealers gloomily surveyed piles of canceled orders. Manufacturers, with TV sets in their warehouses, gritted their teeth...
...zone beyond, destruction would be-as atomic scientists describe it-"severe." As the mushroom cloud drifted off, in the cluttered, congested, trapped island of Manhattan, storms of fire would lick furiously across the stricken city. An estimated minimum of 75,000 people would be dead, 75,000 would be dying...
...Particular Strain. The Senate, always sadder & wiser than the House, continued to debate. Still the most voluble and stubborn opponent of granting such executive powers was Ohio's Robert Taft, who talked as if all the mobilization now going on was meant only to lick North Korea, instead of preparing for something worse. "I do not intend to say that the Korean war is not a real war," he argued. "But from an economic standpoint, it is not any particular strain on the economy...
...they soon found what the island had in store for them. When the supporting Navy took a pasting in the Battle of Savo Island and went off to lick its wounds, the 1st was left alone on Guadalcanal with the Japanese, the jungle, malaria, dysentery, fungus disease. In control of the sea and air, the Japanese constantly reinforced their positions, managed to put 40,000 men on the island against the marines' 10,000. The 1st suffered hundreds of air raids and a devastating shelling from Japanese battleships and cruisers. One of Guadalcanal's heroes was Colonel Merritt...
...said: "I want Joe Stalin to know that if he starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning the fighting power and strength of America will be on the job at 5 o'clock." The joke going around the Pentagon was: "Louis said we could lick the Russians-he didn't mean the North Koreans." In short, the U.S. was at least partly prepared for a thunderous Armageddon. It was not prepared at all for the North Koreans...