Word: licking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early to know what sort of traditional defense (or "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em" strategy) may result from this by far the most massive assault yet by the Visigoths. Preliminarily, though, cliometrics seems to have scored heavily. TIME consulted a dozen American scholars, many of whom had read the book in advance of publication...
Christine Johnson got out just in time. The lick of flame was creating an inferno. Dark brown smoke shrouded the structure, then rose high enough to hide a police helicopter hovering over the scene. Sheets of ash the size of magazine pages rose gracefully into the air and floated to earth a half block away...
...could fly. Korolyov took us on a tour of a launching pad and tried to explain how the rocket worked. We were like peasants in a marketplace. We walked around and around the rocket, touching it, tapping it to see if it was sturdy enough. We did everything but lick it. Some people might say that we were technological ignoramuses...
...been denounced on the floor of the Oklahoma legislature, been called "bastard" by state officials and a "lying s.o.b." by a newspaper publisher. A fellow editor once threatened to "slap his teeth out," while another stormed that he was not fit to lick boots. To such aspersions "Frosty" Troy retorts: "I'm a zealot." Then he returns to making more enemies in his job as the publisher, editor and principal reporter of the Oklahoma Observer (circ. 4,164), a twice-monthly tabloid that hits wealthy and powerful Sooners like a dust storm. Says Ed Hardy, press secretary to Oklahoma...
...idyllic education at Sewanee, in Europe and at Harvard Law School. His father, LeRoy Percy, ran for re-election as a U.S. senator and lost to the notorious James K. Vardaman, an archetypal Southern cracker, in a bitter campaign; the defeat sent the Percys scurrying off to Europe to lick their wounds...