Word: licking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speeds above Mach 1, engineers grounded all planes, experimented with a tail attached to a rocket sled. They drove the sled until the tail disintegrated, found where it needed improvement. In the old days, it would have taken many test flights-and perhaps some pilots' lives-to lick the problem...
Johnston said that the Senator probably had not been informed of the purpose of his visit. "Hell," replied Magnuson, "I know what you were doing. That doesn't make any difference at all. Next time you go out there to see how you can lick me, just let me know, and I'll give you the key to my apartment. I got a car, too, and you can use that. Help you get around the state, seeing Republicans. I really mean it." He really...
...Moore of Lick Observatory noticed that the spectrum of Polaris, which is a brilliant supergiant, showed irregularities suggesting that it is revolving around still another star. Under such conditions the light of the circling star changes slightly, according to whether it is moving toward or away from the earth...
...deaths-Japanese B far outstrips diphtheria, cholera, typhus and polio as a killer. After giving up to 500,000 inoculations with a killed-virus vaccine which proved too weak to be effective, the U.S. Army is now ready to begin laboratory testing of a greatly improved vaccine which may lick Japanese B entirely for Americans in the Orient. But even if it works (which will take years to determine), the Japanese themselves are not likely to benefit. In the homeland of Japanese B. vaccines against it are rated too costly for humans; they are reserved for imported race horses...
...Time for Sergeants follows a classic pattern of rube-conquers-all, but it follows it less for satiric than for outright comic ends. Will is not just the simpleton who confounds the sages; he is also the good boy who can lick all the bad ones, the farm boy who can drink city slickers under the table. With everything soundly proceeding at a comic-strip level, No Time for Sergeants becomes a fine, boisterous exercise in sustained improbability, in morning-fresh outrageousness. It has a kind of healthy, folkish madness: it makes the Air Force seem like something personally invented...