Word: lick
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...years before. One October evening after school Ike nobly bore the honor of Abilene's South Side through a classic two-hour fistfight against Wesley Merrifield, champion of the more prosperous North Side. The fight ended in a draw. "Ike," gasped Wes, "I can't lick you." "Well, Wes," said Ike grimly, "I haven't licked...
NICKEL STOCKPILING will be halted on Jan. 1 for first time since Korean war. Office of Defense Mobilization thinks new sources of supply from Canada and Cuba will soon lick shortage of defense metal", already has big enough hoard to divert 25 million Ibs. of nickel slated for stockpile to private industry in fourth quarter...
Died. Mildred Ella ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, 42, sinewy, square-jawed Texas tomboy who played baseball with a House of David team, barnstormed nationally in basketball, boasted "Ah'm gonna lick you!" and did in 632 out of 634 women's athletic events in her teens, set records (later broken) in the 80-meter hurdles and javelin throw in the 1932 Olympics (where she also tied for first place in the high jump, was dropped to second for her unorthodox style), discovered golf in 1931 and was soon outdriving men ("You've got to loosen your girdle...
...stages of the rocket that will lift the moon to about 130 miles altitude, says the Navy, and is finished on the final, payoff stage that will push the moon into its orbit. Engines for all three stages have roared through ground tests. Engineers are confident that they will lick one bugaboo: heat damage to the nose of the rocket caused by aerodynamic friction...
...hands of Ted Lewis, who made it wail, and reached peak popularity in the pre-World War II days of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, who made it swing. It is still a must in every Dixieland and New Orleans jazz group, but is rare as a hot lick in modern combos. What happened...