Word: licking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas time not to bathe until Dday. They cooked their own meals over campfires, slept on the ground without blanket or tent. Familiarized with jujitsu and dirty-fighting tactics devised by thugs of all nations, they feared no man on earth ex cept the few white officers who could lick them in hand-to-hand combat (barring knives, garrotes and guns). Among these were their own jumpmaster, a handsome golden-haired lieutenant who used to sell insurance, and their colonel, a 1938 West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took off on Dday, a grimy mechanic waved and grinned...
...they wondered again, as Paul McNutt, the central figure in manpower management, ended a vacation in French Lick, Ind. by telling reporters: ". . . We're pretty well on top of [manpower] right now. . . . There are some isolated spots giving us trouble-bearings, foundries, and shipbuilding plants." That did not sound like crisis talk...
...kingpin of Allagash Plantation, the last Maine outpost on the St. John River before it disappears into Maine's forests, is 6-ft., 190-lb. John Gardner. He could ride a log through white water be fore he was ten. At 20 he could lick every man within 50 miles...
...been dropped in one week. For three months ago the Luftwaffe was fighting every raid with all it had-many bombers were shot down, and many so shot up that they required extensive repairs. Again & again the R.A.F. and Eighth Air Force had to take several days off to lick their wounds-and they cannot take much time out if they are to deliver 16,000 tons of bombs a week...
Chicago French Lick, Ind. Cincinnati Bloomington...