Word: licking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy failed," Sihanouk declared. "But Chester Bowles, no matter how he smiles, does not have and never will have the seductive effect of Mrs. Kennedy. He will go home empty-handed." For good measure, Sihanouk added: "I do not want to lose my dignity, I do not want to lick the bottom and boots of Mr. Johnson...
...made a rare public appearance two weeks ago on North Viet Nam's Resistance Day, or Lyndon Johnson, or both, was on the verge of widening the war. As long as, the Communists can move supplies more or less freely through Laos and Cambodia and retreat there to lick their wounds, the U.S. will find it difficult to drive them from the field completely. Nor will the "McNamara Wall" now being built along the DMZ be effective if the Communists can end-run around it in Laos. At some point, and last week's events indicate that...
...well as an adjacent 29-story office building, the superstructure of cavernous Pennsylvania Station had to be demolished and all its facilities moved underground. This meant scheduling construction so that the 200,000 travelers pouring into the station each day would suffer minimum inconvenience. Although computers were used to lick the logistics, the station's baggage-claim area still has had to be moved no fewer than 16 times since construction began back...
Puzzled, a group of University of California astronomers ran their own tests at California's Lick Observatory. No luck. Then someone had a bright idea. While working with the same spectrographic equipment that the French had used to examine the dwarf starlight, one of the astronomers struck a match. Voilal Potassium lines! The Californians' conclusion, reported in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: the potassium "flares" were probably produced when French smokers-not dwarf stars...
Worst of all, the fight seemed to settle nothing. Both sides went off to lick their wounds, buy fresh armaments and ammunition, and presumably have another go at the flower power struggle with all cannon blazing...