Word: lick
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...Laver insisted they had no immediate plans to turn pro. But these days, the top amateurs, both in the U.S. and Australia, almost always defect to the pros. But Australia plans for such losses. Ever since 1950, the ever-changing Aussie roster has almost always been good enough to lick the rest of the world. The teams...
...flamboyance-he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair-Adair is methodical about his business, carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire "so as to have a little nugget handy in our minds to lick a problem next time it shows...
Deeper than Woman. Ardrey is a playwright who went to Africa in 1955 to concoct magazine articles and lick his wounds after a Broadway flop (his Shadow of Heroes, a play about the Hungarian Rebellion, opened to mixed reviews last week). He was fascinated by South African Anthropologist Raymond A. Dart, discoverer of Australopithecus, a man-ape who lived about 750,000 years ago. Ardrey was deeply impressed by Dart's contention that the small-brained Australopithecus used antelope bones as clubs and that these weapons changed him from a vegetarian into a successful predator and allowed...
Numbers Game. In 1935 a group of 21 independent newspapers decided that if they couldn't join Hearst they would lick him. This Week, their competitive supplement, began life with 4,293,000 circulation-about two-thirds of American Weekly's-and has been growing sturdily ever since. Other national supplements came along: Parade in 1941, Family Weekly in 1953, Suburbia Today in 1959. What had been a comfortable 40-year monopoly for American Weekly turned abruptly into a survival fight...
...rapid growth of the Kennedy brain-trusters might indicate that Mr. Kennedy is determined to lick the unemployment problem singlehanded by recruiting anybody and everybody into his mess of principal advisers...