Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board hastily explained that its objection was not to the author's being red but to some of his passages being "too purple to be read by children." Novelist Fast had written too much about breasts, virgins and "oceans of flesh," put phrases like "I lick God's belly" into Deist Paine's mouth...
...placed a bet of $12.5 million last week on a new kind of house to help lick the shortage-a prefabricated one of enameled steel. The cash, in the form of a loan, went to Chicago's Lustron Corp., which had asked RFC for a maximum, of $52 million last fall to finance building of veterans' houses (TIME, Nov. 11, et seq.). Then, RFC had turned Lustron down flat on the grounds that Lustron was putting up too little of its own capital ($36,000), stood to make a 14,000% profit. Lustron also tried and failed...
...have a doctor straighten out his nose. He knew it was time to quit. Said Fritzie: "You know why fighters get started on comebacks . . . they got nuthin' to do so they drop around to the gyms and finally they say to themselves: 'Lookit those bums ... I can lick 'em myself!' So they go and become bums too. Not me ... I've never heard strange noises yet and I'm not going to ... two or three more fights, then it's all over...
...Lick & Promise. To a nation which had demanded a change in policy he offered, scarcely any policy at all. Instead of specific remedies for the nation's problems, he produced mainly a vaguely worded collection of generalities which implicitly invited Congress to do as it pleased...
Some major matters he avoided completely. There was no mention of portal-to-portal pay, of income-tax reductions, of such an old troublemaker as FEPC. Foreign policy and foreign trade he dismissed with a lick & a promise-and an aside on "the difficulty of reaching agreement with the Soviet Union on the terms of [peace] settlement." One of his few specific requests was for the continuation of war excise tax rates-which he himself had just lifted by abruptly announcing the termination of hostilities (see below...