Word: lick
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...four days away from "the biggest comedy show in the history of TV." He is surrounded by the usual coterie of chorines, con men, stooges and freeloaders. His head writer (Edmond O'Brien) plagiarizes to please him. His weakling brother (Mel Tormé) can neither escape him nor lick him. Even a fox-sly gossip columnist fails to frame him and concedes that he must wait for revenge until "six straight men send him along the route to the great producer up yonder." The unpleasant honesty of the climax makes up for most of the play's faults...
...improperly requisitioned in order to seduce the daughter of the house, a well-meaning colonel who quits rather than carry out the conflicting orders of Washington politicos who all "have rocks in their heads," assorted privates and corporals who force the imprisoned wives of erstwhile Nazi bigwigs to lick the paint off Hitler portraits. The Germans, on the other hand, are almost all noble...
...Gomulka's thin shoulders, and he clumps out to his ZIS limousine, pausing a moment to look across the streets and roofs of Warsaw shining with frost. Not in his office, or in intellectual circles, but out there in the dark bitter cold is the problem he must lick before Poland or the world knows whether he is a real leader...
Archie Moore was led away, the light-heavyweight title still tenuously in his hands. The factor that helped to lick him -age-offered the new heavyweight champion of the world a fancy future: his best bouts and biggest purses (this one: $114,000) were still ahead. "Patterson has the potentialities of a great fighter," said Archie when he found his tongue. For the first time ever, the gaudy pitchman was guilty of astonishing understatement. What the sport needed next was some men good enough to take on the young and growing champ. The man most fitted for the assignment: Retired...
Israel: Proved it could lick any Arab army, though doing so increased the hatred towards it of all Arabs...