Word: lick
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...tidy as house cats (they lick each other clean after a hunt), and so smart that fanciers claim that a chilly Basenji will grip a shovel in his teeth and heap coal on a dying fire, Basenjis were once favored pets at the courts of Egypt's Pharaohs. In 1936 a pair of them were brought to London. In a decade their number increased to 75 (worth about ?250 each...
...Advocate, but they may not unleash their power in time. Of course, you might say we've also got the Society for the Preservation of Free Enterprise. On freedom from enterprises naturally appeals to them. But that Varsity crowd is going to be tough to lick...
...board hastily explained that its objection was not to the author's being red but to some of his passages being "too purple to be read by children." Novelist Fast had written too much about breasts, virgins and "oceans of flesh," put phrases like "I lick God's belly" into Deist Paine's mouth...
...placed a bet of $12.5 million last week on a new kind of house to help lick the shortage-a prefabricated one of enameled steel. The cash, in the form of a loan, went to Chicago's Lustron Corp., which had asked RFC for a maximum, of $52 million last fall to finance building of veterans' houses (TIME, Nov. 11, et seq.). Then, RFC had turned Lustron down flat on the grounds that Lustron was putting up too little of its own capital ($36,000), stood to make a 14,000% profit. Lustron also tried and failed...
...have a doctor straighten out his nose. He knew it was time to quit. Said Fritzie: "You know why fighters get started on comebacks . . . they got nuthin' to do so they drop around to the gyms and finally they say to themselves: 'Lookit those bums ... I can lick 'em myself!' So they go and become bums too. Not me ... I've never heard strange noises yet and I'm not going to ... two or three more fights, then it's all over...