Word: lick
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...Moore of Lick Observatory noticed that the spectrum of Polaris, which is a brilliant supergiant, showed irregularities suggesting that it is revolving around still another star. Under such conditions the light of the circling star changes slightly, according to whether it is moving toward or away from the earth...
...deaths-Japanese B far outstrips diphtheria, cholera, typhus and polio as a killer. After giving up to 500,000 inoculations with a killed-virus vaccine which proved too weak to be effective, the U.S. Army is now ready to begin laboratory testing of a greatly improved vaccine which may lick Japanese B entirely for Americans in the Orient. But even if it works (which will take years to determine), the Japanese themselves are not likely to benefit. In the homeland of Japanese B. vaccines against it are rated too costly for humans; they are reserved for imported race horses...
...Time for Sergeants follows a classic pattern of rube-conquers-all, but it follows it less for satiric than for outright comic ends. Will is not just the simpleton who confounds the sages; he is also the good boy who can lick all the bad ones, the farm boy who can drink city slickers under the table. With everything soundly proceeding at a comic-strip level, No Time for Sergeants becomes a fine, boisterous exercise in sustained improbability, in morning-fresh outrageousness. It has a kind of healthy, folkish madness: it makes the Air Force seem like something personally invented...
...this country, and that your future depends on giving all sides a fair shake. Right now the odds are that the Republicans will not win in 1956. That would put you in a hell of a position. All we Democrats ask is fair treatment-equal treatment. We can lick the opposition with this. I don't give a damn that my subscription expires this month. I get the Democratic Digest, and that will well take up my time...
...treatment. The most drastic break with current U.S. practice that he suggested was rehabilitating the addict first-teaching him a trade, helping him to get a job-and treating the addiction afterward. This would mean dispensing narcotics to the addict until the doctor felt that he was ready to lick the habit. A similar system, tried from 1919 to 1929 at 44 clinics in 15 states, claimed the Academy, showed good results until the Government stopped...