Word: licked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essay's message--more "Americanism" in colleges leaves little hope that the Legion will give education a pause to lick its wounds...
...physician was so perturbed by this possibility that he devoted much of his life to campaigning against public health schools, fearing all the while he would be out of work if they were successful. Only through such a varied and complex list of projects does the school expect to lick the causes of disease and end it before it starts...
...lick 'cm, join 'cm" was Truman's method. He guarded himself by inviting reporters, Cabinet members, and friends to swim with him. His selection of shirts also helped him show that he was just any other hard worked executive on a needed vacation. With those hybrid Hawaiian Crosby choices, he eclipsed everything except his lined but happy face...
...longer a pushover. We're gaining. We are better off than a year ago and infinitely better off than two years ago. There are still problems to be solved, but if the curve continues upward, we will lick the problems...
...newcomer to Westinghouse, Price's biggest worry was whether or not he could win the respect of the old hands. For a while it seemed a question whether he would lick the job or it would lick him. He chain-smoked cigars, often 20 a day. He developed ulcers worrying whether he could make good in an industry completely new to him. Price whipped his ulcers, grew assured enough not to mind the jokes about his mechanical ignorance, and cut down his smoking...