Word: lick
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...Lick, Tenn. is not a county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
...average family's cash income at Big Lick was $50 a year, the average house was valued at $250 to $500. For six months a year even the road to Crossville was impassable. By the time a doctor was sent for, it was usually too late. When a visiting preacher came to Big Lick, he used the schoolhouse...
...that his first job at Big Lick was to change a dispirited collection of families into a community of men&women. Their center would be the church. He started with the young folks-dances, socials, and "singing games." Then he set out to build his church...
...Argument? In Dillon, S.C., Harmon Herring, fresh from a touch-&-go wrestling match with a wildcat (which he finally throttled), announced authoritatively that no man can lick his weight in wildcats...
...ride the Emperor's white horse down the streets of Tokyo): he got a white wooden mount in Manhattan from members of the Military Order of the World Wars. Day before, Gossipist Leonard Lyons quoted his latest blurt, apropos the atomic bomb-that he would have preferred to lick Japan without it, conceded that it "did one good thing, though. It meant 100,000 dead Japs we'll never have to worry about...