Word: licking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, The Other America, and sociologist Saul Alinsky, a tireless agitator and polemicist who travels from city to city advising the poor on how to organize for uplift. Underlying the anti-poverty campaign is the uniquely American belief-surprisingly often correct-that evangelism, money and organization can lick just about anything, including conditions that the world has always considered inevitable...
...Pathet Lao boycotted the elec tions. Lacking the substantial flow of men and arms that North Viet Nam has had to divert to the Viet Cong next door, isolated by its refusal to take part in the government, driven back by gov ernment armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...
...stamps bother the crusty Missouri artist? Not a bit, said Benton, who was paid around $5,000 for the painting. "I've always liked the idea of popularizing paintings." The next question is what popularized art lover is going to buy the $296,250 worth of merchandise and lick the 2,962,500 stamps he will need to purchase...
Instantly, the infield at Candlestick Park was jammed with milling, jostling players trying to separate the combatants-or get in a lick or two of their own. By the time everybody got back to the ball game, 15 minutes later, policemen were guarding the dressing rooms, and both Roseboro and Marichal had been escorted from the park...
...last year. Hachette, the powerful publishing house that owns both newspapers, was distressed over a loss of $800,000 in 1964 by Paris-Presse alone. Moreover, the Paris-Presse payroll was padded with all sorts of pleasant cousins and friends who never did a lick of work. At the news that a lot of these ardent Gaullists would come over to their paper, twelve top France-Soir staffers resigned in a huff...