Word: licked
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...love hot corn and felafel*And to lick ice cream...
...management and reasonable luck, the government will avoid the dramas of last year, when strikes paralyzed Irish commercial banks for six months and closed the cement industry. C.M. Whitaker, head of the Central Bank and a leading economist, says: "The unions are now as keen as we are to lick inflation...
...When he allows himself to relax, as he did at Treetops, Agnew has occasionally displayed more charm and wit than he is given credit for. "A finesse that the United Nations would be proud of," he observed of the various animals taking turns at a salt lick...
...particular, is now becoming an astronomical disaster area. The blinding glow from nearby Los Angeles, for example, has rendered Mount Wilson Observatory's 100-in. telescope useless for the kind of observations of distant galaxies that once made it world-renowned. Not far behind is the 120-in. Lick Observatory reflector atop Mount Hamilton, which is rapidly being swamped by the incandescence of the San Francisco Bay Area's expanding cities and towns. Even the 200-in. Hale mirror on Mount Palomar-the world's largest telescope-may be seriously imperiled before the decade...
Most important is daughter Patsy, the one who attempts to lick the system by disregarding its failings, by finding four good things for every bad. She loves interior decorating, and is blithely unconscious that her metallic designs are inherited from her world. She loves skiing and swimming and horseback-riding, while ignoring the gas stations and telephone wires and Negro gardeners that surround her at the Concord...