Word: licking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call to arms, whooping it up for Harry Truman, "a distinguished Missourian in the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt." In Ohio, senatorial candidate John Bricker returned the Republican challenge with the voice of doom: "Bring on your New Deal, Communistic and subversive groups. If we can't lick them in Ohio, America is lost anyway...
...when does a queen begin her reproductive life? Dr. Schneirla is not sure, but he has a theory. While the queen is in a bivouac, she is always surrounded by a dense mass of workers, which struggle wildly to lick some substance exuded by her body. The males, no matter how eager, cannot get anywhere near...
...trust those who pretend to be friends of our country. Many of them are more dangerous than out-and-out enemies. Recently it has become the fashion among certain émigrés, not only the Left but among actual monarchists, to lick our boots. Don't trust them. Once a turncoat, always a turncoat...
...ration-ridden British can take almost any kind of shortage in stride. One that they are at least beginning to lick is a serious shortage of clergymen. Two world wars have left the Church of England with a 4,000-minister deficit (not counting chaplains still in uniform...
...dogs' fleas, ticks, lice: Dust with a 10% DDT powder-but don't use it on cats, because they lick off the dust. DDT solutions are dangerous to animals...