Word: licked
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Franklin Roosevelt: Joe, I want to help England lick Hitler...
...little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
When Germany issued a special twelve-pfennig stamp advertising Italo-German solidarity (with pictures of Hitler and Mussolini, fasces, swastika and inscription) the British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast: "Now we can lick them both at once...
...leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt for his rhinoceros whip, jumped to his feet, whipped the leopard out of the tent and into the jungle. Walking back to his tent, feeling bad about the way his pet had turned out, he felt something lick his hand. It was his pet leopard. The other one had come out of the jungle...
...fellow-traveling consisted largely of letting Communist-front organizations use his name on letterheads, considered this one of "the shames of my life." He also considered Communists "pernicious" -for Mumford, strong language. Malcolm Cowley, writing a book "to clarify my mind," craved only to be left in peace to lick his spiritual wounds...