Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shades of Dec. 7, when we thought we'd lick the Japanese in six weeks...
...standard of living will fall." That is no new problem. The U.S. economy has met it before, notably in shortening the work week. Since 1909, manufacturing hours have been cut from 52.7 to 40, while wages have risen from $10 a week to $56.33. The U.S. could lick the pension problem without devastating strikes, provided that pensions were regarded not as a gift, but as something to be earned...
...enjoy his masterpiece himself, hung it in an upstairs room and admired it daily. Publicly shown for the first time in 1929, it was hailed as a brilliant "expressionist" picture foreshadowing the works of Max Beckmann and Paul Klee. Connoisseurs clustered around the picture like cattle at a salt lick, but while he lived, Ensor refused to part with it. Last week it went for $40.000 to an Ostend casino proprietor named Gustave Nellens...
...Town is written in pioneer idiom; sometimes it gets to be a strain watching Richter strain for colorful expressions. But when he succeeds, they're good, e.g., "You wouldn't reckon to look at her she could read a lick, but she'd turn the old page and suck out the meaning of the new like a bird pulling out a worm...
...suspects that the average man gets too much sleep, and claims that four or five hours a night is about right for himself. He is seldom, if ever, sick. He considers the onset of a common cold a personal affront, and has a theory that the way to lick it is to stay up and fight it. These attributes have had an astonishing effect on Boyd's staff. They may not quite have Boyd's bounce at the end of a 14-to 1 6-hour closing day, but they usually manage to keep up the pace...