Word: licked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stages of the rocket that will lift the moon to about 130 miles altitude, says the Navy, and is finished on the final, payoff stage that will push the moon into its orbit. Engines for all three stages have roared through ground tests. Engineers are confident that they will lick one bugaboo: heat damage to the nose of the rocket caused by aerodynamic friction...
...hands of Ted Lewis, who made it wail, and reached peak popularity in the pre-World War II days of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, who made it swing. It is still a must in every Dixieland and New Orleans jazz group, but is rare as a hot lick in modern combos. What happened...
...Undaunted by a length-and-a-quarter loss to Yale in the Carnegie Cup race on the Housatonic River Cornell's crew came back on the choppy waters of the Potomac to lick the Elis by a scant 3 ft. in the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges...
...some run-scoring aggression at home plate (see cut), personally accounted for the winning run over Pittsburgh, did the same the following day. The Cardinals' Stan Musial hit a home run to beat Cincinnati. The Yankees' Mickey Mantle walloped two out-of-the-park homers to help lick Washington (and added two more homers by week's end). And the Red Sox's Ted Williams expertly dumped three hits into left field against the right-side "Williams shift" to pace the Sox to victory over Baltimore...
Carousel (20th Century-Fox). In the years between the wars, European audiences licked their lips over Liliom, the play by Ferenc Molnar. What they liked about its flavor was the salt. U.S. theater goers did the same over Carousel, the musical that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein made from the play in 1945, but what they liked about its flavor was the sugar-the pretty pink icing of the plot, and most of all the sunny flowing honey of the lovely Rodgers tunes. The melodies have all their clovered freshness still, but if film fans lick their lips over anything...