Word: licking
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Midwestern Democrats, about 1,000 of them, seemed to be having a rollicking good time at their party conference. Gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in French Lick, Ind., near the Lost River, they cheered waiters who balanced trays on their heads, made ribald jokes about the laxative effects of French Lick water. Only one thing kept nagging at them-worry about this fall's elections...
...riot police moved in with tear gas and truncheons. Ignoring the gas, the men fought back with fists, the women wielded handbags. A police water truck roared up to douse the demonstrators. "Cowards!" shrieked the enraged women. "Pigs!" Cried one defiantly: "Either we are true citizens or we lick boots...
...because, as he put it, his mother "was not chaste." But he grew up with a sense of security in his close-knit, comfortable family, early developed a spirit of reasonableness. He fled his first fistfight at Eton with no sense of shame: "If I found I could not lick the fellow, I said, 'come, this won't do; it's no use standing here to be knocked to pieces...
...join Europe's Common Market, maybe you can lick it by forming one of your own-or so goes the thinking these days among nations from Chile to the Congo. In Cairo alone over the past fortnight, the groundwork was laid for two new common markets; one would link five Arab nations, and another six African countries (Egypt judiciously proposes to join both). Africa, in fact, is building three common markets. Two more have been launched in Latin America, and an Asian market has been proposed by Malaya, Thailand and the Philippines...
...Britain can lick them all if we want to," boasts Sir Henry Spurrier, 64, ebullient, white-haired chairman and managing director of England's big Leyland Motors group. Sir Henry, third-generation head of a Lancashire company that started with steam wagons and now concentrates on buses and trucks, wants to. Last year, Leyland's bought up (for $51 million) floundering Standard-Triumph International, which makes the Triumph cars. Now, bracing against Britain's possible entry into the Common Market, he has acquired Associated Commercial Vehicles, which specializes in trucks. That makes him Britain...