Word: licking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every new fire was a new problem. In Rumania, the caved-in well had made a crater 250 ft. wide and 65 ft. deep filled with small ground fires and a tangled web of melted pipeline. It took Kinley six months to lick the fire. In Oklahoma, when his leg was caught in some machinery and broken, Kinley got it set in a cast, went back to direct the fire fighting from horseback. In Venezuela, when shifting winds blew the fire on to him, he spent five weeks on his stomach in a hospital recuperating. In Texas...
...world's toughest. Millionaire Briggs Cunningham built a car with a souped-up Chrysler engine that took fourth in the same race. Some small manufacturers, notably Britain's Allard Motor Co., built cars with Cadillac and Chrysler engines and many standard American parts and saw them lick the ears off finely tuned European sports cars. And in the last Mexican road race, Lincoln sedans came in one, two, three in the stock-car class...
...order is inevitably made for disciplined racketeering. One stevedoring superintendent testified that the Grace Line paid off Timmy O'Mara, a Sing Sing alumnus (burglary) and boss loader on the North River, by carrying him on the payroll under a phony name. O'Mara never did a lick of work, but he netted $24,130 in five years. Portly, white-haired Jones Devlin, the general manager of the powerful U.S. Lines (S.S. United States, America), related with bored weariness how the U.S. Lines abandoned one of its midtown piers rather than try to cope with organized pilferage. Asked...
...they found out that the Irish are "highly humorous" and, to be sure, that is a very mild way of putting it. Also they discovered that the Irish are "volatile"--which is a formal way of saying they can lick any man who says they...
...Rocky's early road was not all rocks. He was as brilliant in sports as he was dull in books, and sports mean more to most boys. He could lick anybody near his size, yet he-never suffered the loneliness and frustration of being a bully. Secure in the love of his family and friends, he grew up modest and gentle. "Rocco," his warmly matriarchal mother sighs, "was the best-natured child you ever see. He always want to be friendly. Always want...