Word: lickly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Building and Grounds Union-Local 877 of the International Union of Operating Engineers-has instructed its members to ignore the charges and not pay violators' tickets when they receive them. "If we all refuse to pay, we can lick 'em," a Harvard painter said last night...
...More important, the U.S. made "very specific" promises to Israel that Washington would not allow it to suffer militarily as a result of the ceasefire; in fact, the U.S. has already sent some new electronic anti-missile gear to the Israeli air force. Israel got in one last psychological lick by making public its intelligence photos of the alleged violations (see box opposite). But Golda Meir also decided to pay heed to the U.S. pronouncement that "the main thing now is to concentrate all efforts on getting discussions going...
That's the first omnibus admission. Architecture, traditionally the grand representation of the spirit of a people, had, in America become separated from any public-inspired or culturally-attractive purposes, and had begun to lick the heels of business...
Merilee climbed the ridge and Girl gave her hand a dry lick. She buried her face in the dog's good dusty fur. Looking up then, she saw what Girl had been leading her toward: not two hundred yards beyond the ridge the river and the 70 m.p.h. Sampans going blinkety-blinkety by in the hush of the night...
Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, introduced the resolution. "One shouldn't lick the boots of killers to get money for basic research." he said...