Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lick the sugar and spice...
This means his top five runners will be either in poor shape or in bed for Friday's triangular meet with Columbia and Penn in New York, but McCurdy said "We'll lick them anyhow...
...good service, only 21% if service is bad. When Ford set up its new Edsel division, it realized that it would be hard to sell cars without expert service. Ford set up a complete garage where $1,000,000 worth of prototype cars were torn down and rebuilt to lick all servicing problems before the first Edsel was sold. Says Edsel Service Manager Harold N. Johnson: "We think we've shown dealers how to get 30% gross profit on servicing operations-without resorting to corruption...
Each British ship was kept in good trim and worked by a crew with boundless confidence in its ability to lick the French. Britain's defensive precautions were superb. Agents, who reported to London the least move of any French warship, were stationed all around the coast of Europe, even in French ministries. At the mouth of every French port lay a British squadron, its sails forever visible on the horizon, its quick frigates ready to race for reinforcements should the French move...
...lapses, generally charged to a lack of confidence in herself, Althea Gibson, the first Negro to crash big-time tennis, has only hovered on the edge of greatness. Last week, day after day, crowds of 20,000 packed the stadium at Wimbledon, England to see if Hoad could still lick the world, and to wonder if Althea was really anything more than a strong-armed also...