Word: licking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth $60 in the marketplace, now go for $3. "Everywhere there are Danakil graves," cabled Griggs, "small mounds covered with rocks to prevent hungry hyenas from digging up and devouring the bodies. Some Danakil dead have been found with dirt in their stomachs, evidence that they have tried to lick the ground for moisture. Only the vultures...
...week tried gamely to make the affair fun for everyone. He grinned as his staff members carried in a gaily decorated white cake while singing a squeaky version of Happy Birthday. When he got some icing on his hands, he dutifully followed the directions called out by his wife: "Lick your fingers, Dick." He even got his Irish setter, King Timahoe, to lick off a glob of frosting that had polluted his maroon sports jacket. Pointing at the sullen skies outside, he joked to his aides: "Take the rest of the day off. Go out and enjoy...
While his teammates are trying to lick B.C., Jenkins, a 6 ft. 8 in. senior forward, will fly to Chicago for a reception for Rhodes Scholarship candidates. Jenkins will return to Cambridge on Saturday after his Rhodes interview...
Only when our oil reserves are depleted and our Government crawls on its hands and knees to King Feisal to lick the oil from his feet, only then will I alter my driving habits, do my wash in cold water and lower my thermostat...
...simplistic arrangement is plodding; guitarist John Platania's work is indecisive, given to noodling. (His work throughout the album is inconsistent, remarkable from a man responsible for the opening lick to "Domino," something that is in my Guitarists Hall of Fame next to the beginning of "Smoke on the Water.") The song's bitterness stands out, and it is a measure of the artist's bitterness that he is unable to articulate...