Word: lick
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Like sidewalk superintendents, jazz fans like to watch and listen to a clicking combo even if they know little about what is actually going on. The least among the initiates can watch a hot lick go sailing from one performer to another like a hot rivet, and appreciate the way it gets deftly caught and driven home before it combo. When such a flurry of faster and faster tosses is completed without disaster, the jazz fan has a tendency to laugh his appreciation out loud...
...essay's message--more "Americanism" in colleges leaves little hope that the Legion will give education a pause to lick its wounds...
...didn't think Stalin could lick us and I don't think Malenkov can lick us. But McCarthy and the spirit of McCarthy can lick us--by getting us to fight among ourselves likes the Romans, by persuading every man that he must keep on looking over his shoulder to make sure that the man beside him doesn't stab him in the back...
...essay's message--more "Americanism" in colleges leaves little hope that the Legion will give education a pause to lick its wounds...
...physician was so perturbed by this possibility that he devoted much of his life to campaigning against public health schools, fearing all the while he would be out of work if they were successful. Only through such a varied and complex list of projects does the school expect to lick the causes of disease and end it before it starts...