Word: licking
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...carpeted sitting room, dazzling with gold-silk furniture, pillars and goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly, in English: "Gentlemen, we'll lick the hell out of 'em. That is the motto of the Thai people...
...President gave the Victory Program its marching orders last week. Biggest problem: how to lick the process by which: 1) Congress appropriates billions of dollars; 2) the Army & Navy swish through paper slips of orders; 3) manufacturers hang the orders on a hook, unable to get the plants, tools, materials and manpower to make the stuff. Most immediate, most terrifying bottleneck, bobbing up like a cork released under water: machine tools. This was the bottleneck of 1940 and 1941, was still guaranteed to last through at least three months...
...outcome should be a first-rate show for bystanders. For Colonel McCormick at 61 may be the least popular U.S. publisher, as well as the most arrogant, contentious and unpredictable, but he is one of America's most successful publishers and a hard man to lick. Only two years ago Hearst's Herald & Examiner folded, just like every other rival Chicago morning paper...
First came a report from French Lick that Indiana Republicans had issued a manifesto, read Wendell Willkie out of the party for his support of the Administration's foreign policy. The report was false, but gave a fair indication of the feelings of many a Republican politico...
Thus did the new head of OPM's Contract Distribution Division, after nine weeks in his job, set out to lick the most serious economic problem now facing the U.S.: the democratization of defense. His attack had characteristic energy and bravura. He worked from 9 a.m. to midnight, ate 20-minute lunches, burned out three assistants.* From the Budget Bureau he asked a whopping appropriation: $23,470,725 for the next twelve months. Of this, $5,000,000 was for his gigantic promotion plans, including the traveling circus, $1,000,000 worth of permanent exhibits and $422,500 worth...