Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toting their marbles to school in Roanoke, Va. At recess, there were shrill cries of "knuckle-down tight" and "whoa marble," as the boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...
...program. Two billion dollars yearly would almost do that. We wonder how far $2 billion would go towards feeding the hungry peoples of the world. Could a lasting peace be established if $2 billion yearly were given to the church for advancing Christianity in foreign lands? . . . Would $2 billion lick cancer...
...Nyheter labeled him an "apostle of hypocrisy," and said that Brundage came from a land where a "top tennis player doesn't go to a tournament for less than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from amateur ranks a year...
...TIME, June 9), got a political reprieve last week. The Communists' best opportunity to kill the new Cabinet seemed to be the scheduled dissolution of the Italian Constituent Assembly this month, which would have been followed by general elections in the fall. The Communists were sure they could lick De Gasperi, or at least deflect his energies from the desperate business of government. But last week the Assembly decided to junk the schedule and to postpone general elections for at least six months. This gave De Gasperi a vital chance to show Italians that he could run and rebuild...
...were right, but the South, who lost, were nicer. After that, nothing happened until . . . some people called doughboys went to Europe and won a war. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, and some people called G.I.s had to go out to the Pacific and lick the pants off them...