Word: lickly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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that officers at a disciplinary camp in Corsica forced prisoners to lick a parade ground clean of dog feces. "Today's legion is different," says one veteran of Algerian days. "Discipline is not what it was. The old ways are no longer acceptable. We are commandos now-exceptionally fit and capable commandos-but we are not the supermen of legend...
...figure it, I was a sure thing, there was no way they could pass me by. Unless...unless some running dog, some lick-spittle cur told them about the time I instigated last year's "how come there is no hot water in the showers" locker room revolt. "Death to the fascist imperialist coaches," I had cried, and now I am paying the price for my insubordination...I've been blackballed...
...Astronomer Joseph S. Miller, using the Lick Observatory's powerful 120-in. (3-meter) telescope near San Jose, Calif., has produced powerful new evidence to support the "distant" quasar argument. Expanding on earlier work at the Hale Observatories by Beverley Oke and James Gunn with the 200-in. (5-meter) Palomar telescope, he and two colleagues studied one of the so-called BL Lacertae objects, which until the late 1960s were thought to be ordinary variable stars, but now are known to resemble quasars...
...known what it was like when people really cared about politics, no matter how misguided their tactics might be. Third Way comes to an end when its members try to liberate a stitching factory for the factory's mostly-Puerto Rican workers. The workers, who don't understand a lick of English, are terrified, and instead of joining the students' assault on the factory, are on the sidewalks looking on as interested by-standers when the cops move...
...Mexico, where the technique is still used, poor campesinos in the steamy coastal state of Oaxaca call the exterminators los matagatos (the cat killers). Reason: their cats lick the DDT residue off their paws and die of a disease of the nervous system. So rats multiply, eat more human food and leave the peasants hungrier than ever...