Word: licking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a year after Mrs. Hartack died, the shack where Billy grew up burned down. William Hartack was finally forced to move his family from Colver to his father's 300-acre farm near Belsano, Pa., where Black Lick Creek runs down the western slope of the Alleghenies. Young Willie did his share of farm chores, took the bus to Black Lick Township school, found time to play the drum in the school band, and got into enough extracurricular trouble to be a regular visitor at the principal's office. "I didn't like girls much then," says he, almost...
...opinion of Alabama's Racist State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., if you can't lick 'em, the best thing to do is scatter 'em. Panicky because Negro vote strength was rising in his county seat of Tuskegee (pop. 6,700), Engelhardt last May authored a gerrymander that jig-sawed more than 400 Negro residents-and the respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro...
...General White also confirmed that the Air Force is working on a contramissile (antimissile missile). Name: Wizard. Making a contramissile accurate enough to intercept an enemy ballistic missile "will be a terrifically difficult problem," said White, "but I think we will lick...
Concerning its feasibility, White said: "It will be a terrifically difficult problem, but I think we will lick it." He also stated that there are a number of development projects in the antimissile field, some of which have great promise...
...colleges during the summer but a move by Harvard to drop the Tigers from their schedule had been handily defeated by undergraduate opinion. The Lampoon reported that undergraduate pressure had forced this decision for "the Harvard man would like to see Princeton dropped, but they would still rather lick...