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...Minneapolis-born Bob Gaylord looks much younger than his 55 years, has the small businessman's visceral belief in competition. With 900 employes, twice his peacetime average, his simple, ungrammatical attitude toward Big Business is that "the further management gets from the job the easier it is to lick them." His company has had a profit-sharing deal with its employes since 1919, has never had a work stoppage, and has never been organized by C.I.O. or A.F. of L. (its open-shop independent union: the Industrial Employes Association). And although he admitted to being a Republican, the nearest...
...before. Much of the Pacific, and perhaps Malaya, must be cleared before the Navy, even in over whelming force, can open and sustain Chennault's cherished entry through the China coast. But the Navy has recognized his need and his potentialities. The Army must give him more planes, lick terrific problems of air supply before he can do his utmost within unopened China. But the Army, like the Navy, has at last recognized Chennault and China...
...climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered for years: Indians tie him up, tomahawk him; maple syrup falls on his bare feet, dogs of all sizes lick it off; a covey of surgeons, to whom he tries to explain his predicament, go to work on him under the impression that he is insane...
Henry Ford threw down the gauntlet to a gossip columnist. Merry-Go-Rounder Drew Pearson had broadcast that 80-year-old Ford is not up to his job. Cried the wiry octogenarian: "I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better in my life. I don't know how old or young this Pearson person is, or what shape he's in or what he has ever done in the way of athletics. But I'll meet him." Forty-five-year-old Pearson suggested a race-"with any vehicle, foot, bicycle, or Model...
...Licking. In Gallup, N.M., Dorothy Scanlon, selling war stamps, stared a customer straight in the eye, accepted his challenge that he would buy all the 25? stamps she could lick in ten minutes, fell to licking, ten minutes later received...