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Word: licking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he played hooky with a pal named Mel McQuarry. When Charlie got home, his father was waiting with a razor strop. Next morning at school, the teacher started to give him a thrashing. Says Rhyne: "I argued as hard as I could that she shouldn't lick me because I'd already got my beating. I offered to pull down my pants to prove it, and she let me off. It was my first double jeopardy case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FROM COTTON FARM TO BAR PRESIDENCY | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...made more personal appearances as Captain Video since I've been off the show than I ever did on it," says Hodge. "I've been at the opening of every Grand Union supermarket, every doughnut shop around New York in the past six months. How do I lick it? What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Problem of Identity | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...From Oklahoma to New York, an eight-man team of Soviet wrestlers found only one American who could lick his weight in Russians. In the four-match tour, University of Iowa Alumnus Terry McCann, 23, U.S. 125½ lb. champ, was the only U.S. wrestler to win any bouts. He won three, drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...often fascinating, as he catches the flavor of Smith's early years quite well. Smith emerges as a cocky, jaunty politician, the man who reorganized New York's State government and gave it an honest and popular administration. He shows through as the Smith who in 1933 threatened to lick Tammany on "a Chinese laundry ticket," if it wouldn't back Herbert Lehman...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Handlin Scans Al Smith With One Eye on 1960 | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

...expert on the subject after five marriages, Gibson says: "Women are really happiest when they are being abused. It's impossible to keep a woman comfortable and happy at the same time. I've lost more wives that way. I throw the verbal stones and the women lick their wounds and lie back in ecstasy." Sample stone: "Nothing makes a woman look more like a bag than wearing a sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Word Jockey | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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