Word: lick
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...shot of Scotch the minute I opened my eyes in the morning." It took Alcoholics Anonymous, treatment with Antabuse and his happy second marriage a few years later to pull him out. He has been on the wagon for a year with only occasional backsliding. "You don't lick all your problems," says Art, "but I've got most of mine under control...
Will America be blinded by this craze? We must face the whipped-cream threat and lick it before it meringues our morals. Ask not for whom the pie flies, it flies...
...company runs a reactionary bourgeois ideology with the intention of keeping workers quiet while exploiting them," Ryan said. "The company wants to get rid of the [seniority] system, so they can play one worker against another. The more you ass lick, the better...
...Congress next week, and pledged full support to Oregon's Al Ullman, the new Ways and Means chairman. Most of Mills' committee colleagues welcomed his return. "He's still the most knowledgeable tax man on the committee," said Illinois Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski. "If he can really lick this thing, he can be one of the most effective members of the committee. It'll be like Socrates having the students sitting at his feet while he passes out tips on taxes." But not unless Mills steers completely clear of strippers and carousing. Warns another member of Ways...
Joking, cajoling, bullying, mediating, Party Chairman Robert S. Strauss, 56, was clearly the impresario at Kansas City, a Texas-style wheeler-dealer of the old school who knew how to get things together. At times, he would lick the tips of his fingers, like a quarterback getting ready to throw a touchdown pass. Strauss liked the role and the praise, and he exulted unashamedly in the power that he wielded as the man who, more than any other, was holding the disparate Democrats together...