Word: licking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest U.S. movie exhibitor, United Paramount Theatres, Inc. has been hard hit by television. Unable to lick the enemy, United Paramount's 45-year-old President Leonard H. Goldenson last week decided to join it. He made a $25 million stock-swapping deal to buy American Broadcasting Co., third biggest television-radio network. Only two weeks before, Edward J. Noble, ABC's biggest stockholder (58%), had stated firmly that he would not sell. But Paramount had upped its offer enough to change his mind...
Would REPETOIRE go on to win at Churchill Downs? Views varied in the Jamaica paddock. Said Jockey McLean: "Four races, four wins-why not?" Said one veteran horseman: "BATTLE MORN lost a lot of ground and looked best." Said another: "Not one of them dogs can run a lick. To me they looked like the field for the Charlestown Derby...
...also made his cattle thirsty by letting them lick salt while driving them to market, then filled them up with water before weighing them for sale. From this practice came the financial term "watered stock...
Like Sugar Ray Robinson, Chicago's Johnny Bratton is fond of flashy clothes and cars, can handle a hot lick on the drums, and boxes with a fancy-Dan prance. When Sugar Ray graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson...
This week the Reds broke contact over most of a 70-mile front, fell back to lick their wounds. Matthew Ridgway, who is not given to boasting, claimed a clear-cut victory: "We have defeated the Communist counteroffensive in the central sector. The Communists have taken a fearful beating, and have disengaged...