Word: licked
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...testimony of Pittsburgh newspaper reporters who had attended debutante luncheons, hunt festivities, other social functions at the club. Their reports, the Government contended, destroyed the Duquesne's luncheon-club theory. Just before the court adjourned the case for two weeks, one Pittsburgh sports editor got in a final lick. Asked whether drinks had been served at a club dinner he attended, the editor answered dolefully: "I remember that particularly well-there was just one drink...
Cline was impressed by the British character and described the English as "a tough bunch to lick...
From "Uncle Joe" down to the rawest gob, the men and officers of the U. S. Fleet swear they could lick Japan's Navy. In full-dress sea fight they ought to. But in the quiet watches, the bravest must remember Alfred Thayer Mahan's dictum: that a Navy is composed of men, ships, bases. (Admiral Mahan, the high priest of modern navies, died before air power began to confuse sea power.) What the U. S. Navy lacks in the western Pacific, Japan has: a sufficient line of bases...
Mary Shaw was a mountaineer's daughter who went away to college, came back to Deer Lick to teach school and be murdered. The scandal that came out shook even the Sheriff. Solution: as simple as basket weave...
...Jimmy Dorsey band that his ideas are more original and more strikingly Illustrated than those Jungle Gene." Plus the fact that McKinley is somebody's gift to a brass section. While other drummers are pounding away at just keeping good steady time, McKinley is backing the brass on every lick they play and thus adding immeasureably to the lift of the hand...