Word: licking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lick, Tenn. is not a county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
...Argument? In Dillon, S.C., Harmon Herring, fresh from a touch-&-go wrestling match with a wildcat (which he finally throttled), announced authoritatively that no man can lick his weight in wildcats...
...ride the Emperor's white horse down the streets of Tokyo): he got a white wooden mount in Manhattan from members of the Military Order of the World Wars. Day before, Gossipist Leonard Lyons quoted his latest blurt, apropos the atomic bomb-that he would have preferred to lick Japan without it, conceded that it "did one good thing, though. It meant 100,000 dead Japs we'll never have to worry about...
Socialism, riding high in many another nation, was having a rough ride in Canada. As virtually everyone thought it would, the socialist CCF Party took another lick ing at the polls this week-this time in Manitoba. In that province's first election since 1941 (and Canada's first since war's end), the Liberal-Conservative coalition of Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson won easily...
Zamperini was shifted to Naoetsu and to Naoetsu went The Bird, still practising his cruelties and abominations. When prisoners came out of the glutted, maggoty toilets, he forced them to lick clean their fouled shoe soles. At other times he lined up a handful of U.S. officers, ordered U.S. enlisted men to go down the line, punching each officer in the face, while he stood there crying, "Next, next" until it became a chant that haunted prisoners' dreams...