Word: licking
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...huge fortunes from the auto industry-which, say some alarmists, is ruining the nation's health by eliminating the normal healthy exercise of walking. Appropriately, Directors Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 83, and Charles F. Kettering, 82, of General Motors, both proudly proclaim that they have never taken a lick of exercise in their lives. On level ground, the farthest they walk is from office or apartment door to car or from car to plane. Up and down, "Boss"' Kettering gets a fair amount of walking because he is too impatient to wait for elevators, walks up two floors...
...teen-age gangs who swagger about New York's West Side-in the standard uniform of leather jacket, ducktail hairdo and handy switchblade-like to boast that they are the Egyptian Dragons or the Assassins and that they can lick anybody on the street. But they can thank their geography that they have never had a rumble with a gang from the Far East...
...bells clanged, there had been the usual maddening, last-minute fumbling blocks. Nevada's neolithic "Molly" Malone numbed Senate floor and galleries with a wandering diatribe against foreign aid that included lengthy quotations from George Washington, Karl Marx, Andrew Jackson and Molly Malone ("The Nevada air corps can lick any European nation"). While an early-finishing House sang Home on the Range, Wisconsin's freshman Democrat William Proxmire infuriated his Senate colleagues by plopping a 750-page report on his desk and earnestly threatening to filibuster, as Saturday midnight approached, against any thought of diverting Lake Michigan water...
Mount Hamilton. The noted Lick Observatory, and a campus only by courtesy, has six faculty members, a handful of graduate students...
...great trouble was getting the oil out. Truck and rail costs were so high that Four Corners oil was priced out of the market. To lick the problem, a combine of six companies (Standard of California, Gulf, Continental, Shell, Richfield and Superior) formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co., spent $50 million for a 16-in. line pumping 70,000 bbls. daily to Los Angeles. Now a second outfit, the Texas-New Mexico Pipe Line Co., has built another line, with 50,000 bbls. daily capacity, from Aneth field in Utah to Jal, New Mexico, where the oil goes into...