Word: licked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though we need a Moses in this field," said Chairman Ellender to Witness Benson. Other committee members, Republicans as well as Democrats, made it plain that they did not see Bible-quoting Mormon Apostle Benson as the needed Moses. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington charged Benson with trying to "lick this problem with phrases." North Dakota Republican Milton R. Young rumbled that the lower wheat supports requested by Benson "would break every wheat farmer...
Even dogs are playing the stock market these days, and only natural-born bums can lick the Government. This seems to be the deceptively modest moral of two works of humor that have infiltrated the solemn ranks of a monumentally dull publishing season...
...Slichter, White House Economic Adviser Raymond Saulnier, and the Federal Reserve's William McChesney Martin have different ideas on growth. They argue that force-feeding offers no assurance of healthy growth, and point to the fact that all the spending and big deficits of the 1930s did not lick the Depression. On the contrary, the U.S. had its two most prosperous years -1956 and 1957-when the budget ran a surplus...
...first convention of the merged New York A.F.L.-C.I.O., Meany last week dismissed Summerfield as "a little ward heeler from Detroit." Then he made his threat: "I have always said that we do not want our own political party, but if we have to do that to lick the people who want to drag us back to the past, we will start our own political party and do a good...
...newsmen usually make indifferent conventioners. Faced with a gathering of their own clan, they either ignore it or show up reluctantly, prepared to sit out the interminable sessions in bored and unresponsive silence. Last week's silver anniversary convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association at French Lick, Ind. was no exception, but before the session was over, the editors got down to some plain talk about themselves. Items: ¶Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons, onetime Boston Globe reporter, flatly charged that daily journalism has degenerated into a "holding operation, and not holding everywhere...