Word: licking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blues, soulin' is a Rawls specialty. His style is all his own. Drawing from a mixed bag of songs, he improvises effortlessly within a three-octave range, spiraling up to a keening, gospel wail, then swooping down to a gritty, resonant bottom. Betwixt and between, he intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame." The tumbling litanies lend a lively, mirthful twist...
...been argued that what seemed like radical new policies to Moley were already implicit in the First New Deal. But for Moley the break was total. Not only did he turn Republican, but in a Newsweek magazine column, and in several books, he has continued to lick the wounds that his political philosophy suffered during that brief alliance. Much in this volume only echoes what Moley wrote in After Seven Years, an equally unhappy appraisal of the New Deal published...
...will not be a very merry Christmas for Lyndon Johnson, who returned last week to his Texas ranch to recuperate further from his operation-and to lick some wounds that are harder to heal. With his own party dissatisfied and disunited after its November setback, Johnson was not only being blamed for the defeat but hearing an increasing amount of speculation that he might not run in 1968. Even if he does run, he faces a revived Republican Party that is gaining confidence that it can defeat him, and is busy seeking the best among several jockeying candidates...
...want to. I have not found the easy, enjoyable way of singing. I think I have a fear of finding it, probably from having a little too much of singing when I was young. In the back of my mind and the bottom of my heart I want to lick that...
...carry ordnance, including nuclear bombs, weighing up to half of its own 61-ton weight. That makes it, pound for pound, just about the biggest payload carrier of any supersonic plane. So maneuverable is it that pilots claim that "under 30,000 feet, the F-5 can lick anything that flies-no matter how fast...