Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week U.C.L.A. trainers were delighted with the result. As they had hoped, the new game discouraged gentlemanly reticence; baskets and ball merely offered an incentive to slug the other man before he could get in his jaw-jarring lick. Best of all, it was giving trainees a practical demonstration of an ancient U.S. Navy tenet: the best defense is a strong offense...
...reason was that when Jimmy Byrnes scotched all reconversion talk, he also scotched a lot of reconversion planning. Today the War Production Board is still in the dark about how many and what kinds of weapons the Army & Navy will need to lick Japan...
Instead of permitting Bone to be a bewildered journalist, Hollywood has converted him into a moody pianist. In the embarrassingly incredible denouement, he ends his unhappy love life at the concert grand of the London Philharmonic as the building burns down around him and the flames lick his face...
...Congressman from Minnesota, onetime Minneapolis street sweeper, warned Washington newsmen to stop snickering at his unstatesmanlike past. Fumed Representative Gallagher: "I am not ashamed of having worked. . . . One young man . . . wrote a story about me being stoop-shouldered and having gnarled hands. Well, I'll bet I can lick hell...
...work was directed by Dr. Jules Freund, 54, hygienist with the Austrian Army in World War I, and assistant professor of pathology at Cornell. The U.S. Army & Navy, hopeful that the discovery may lead to a vaccine which will lick World War II's No. 1 disease, have put the lid on the experiments, they will not allow the institute to reveal the kinds of animals immunized, or the kinds of malaria parasites-there are four-against which the animals were protected...