Word: lick
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...says McNarney, the U.S. will presently develop a fighter that can lick the B-36. Soon thereafter it will have a bomber (probably the Boeing long-range, all-jet XB-52) that will be better than the B-36. Other nations, presumably, are working along the same lines. No one is sure where the advantage will rest when the new airplanes appear...
...never know what you're going to get until you try." He therefore is still looking for the change in pace to bring about some last-minute changes in personnel, especially as he is not sure in his heart-of-heart that the current Varsity boat can consistently lick the Jayvees...
Unwanted Task. Just how long this new parade of personal triumphs would continue depended on whether Perón could lick Argentina's still unsolved economic crisis. His army critics seemed perfectly willing to leave that task to him for the present. Meanwhile, the high-flying Señora was reported setting her sights to bring down the boss of the army, whose criticisms had caused her so much recent embarrassment. When this news was conveyed to Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina, at his big army base outside the capital, the general's comment was blunt...
...justified; a mummy of the same breed (one of thousands of such embalmed animals found in the Nile Valley), bound into a thin, dusty cylinder with only the ears and sunken face visible; a 15th Century specimen crouched and grinning above a terse warning: "Beware of cats, which lick in front and scratch behind...
...retort which would have sufficed, had a retort been in order, is the way to dispose of Mr. Curley which is in closest accord with the tenets that the do-gooders generally profess is not to substitute a different organizational form for the government of Boston but to lick Mr. Curley in an election by offering a candidate and program which the voters of Boston would prefer to Mr. Curley, who, it may be noted, has done a great deal for Boston as well as for MT. Curley. This is a fact of which the voters seem to be aware...