Word: licked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This led to a rumor that Harry Truman wanted Bob Taft to win and thus remain a leading G.O.P. presidential candidate: the one candidate the President felt certain he could lick, hog-tied and blindfolded, in 1952. On a trip to Ohio, Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle piously denied the rumor. Last week Harry Truman predicted, in equally pious tones, that the Democrats would carry Ohio. Taft's probable opponent, one Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, an amiable political mediocrity who is state auditor, cried that he would massacre his foe. But the winter book money was on Taft...
...easy, amphibious stride when one horse drifted wide, carrying Citation out with him. For a while it looked like a repetition of the race two years ago at Havre de Grace, when an unknown named Saggy handed Citation one of his two defeats in 30 starts. But one lick of Jockey Steve Brooks's whip shot Citation into the lead. He coasted down the stretch like a champion, ears pricked forward, and won by a length and a half. His time for the six furlongs: a creditable...
Slough of Dispond. The year began in an air of political unreality. The Administration gabbled of plans for new controls to fight an inflation that was already ebbing. With hard words for business, which was charged with failing to live up to its promise to lick inflation by production, President Truman talked of Government-financed steel plants, demanded $4 billion more in taxes and stand-by controls. Before long, he knew that he was wrong...
...midyear, production had dropped 17% but it also seemed, at last, to have found a solid footing. And the "recession," it seemed, had at least in part been caused by a great miscalculation. U.S. businessmen, roaring mad at those who had underestimated the ability of U.S. production to lick inflation, had made a similar mistake themselves. They had underestimated the appetite of U.S. citizens to consume. At the year's start, the supply of goods on hand and in the pipelines seemed enormous-$58.5 billion worth, enough to last the U.S. for three months even if not a wheel...