Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well within the stream of Graeco-Roman culture. It happened also in Germany. Mr. Flynn's plain point is that fascism can come to any Western capitalist nation, and he thinks that it is coming to the U.S. if someone doesn't figure out a way to lick old devil budget...
...that the Allies have developed a radically new type of fighter aircraft which flies without a propeller. It is driven entirely by jet propulsion. Work on the design was started in 1933 by ace British designer Frank Whittle, now an R.A.F. group captain. It took him four years to lick the engine problem, four more before a plane actually flew...
...answer to the Soviet Government's anti-religious prayers. It was related to a heavy blow that had befallen the Government earlier, the full seriousness of which had not been realized at the time: acting apparently on the principle that if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, the Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow had joined the Bolsheviks. Not that he ceased to be a Christian or acquired a party-book (the Communist Party does not admit Christians to membership). What Sergei did was to take literally the Soviet Government's decree that the business...
...Minneapolis-born Bob Gaylord looks much younger than his 55 years, has the small businessman's visceral belief in competition. With 900 employes, twice his peacetime average, his simple, ungrammatical attitude toward Big Business is that "the further management gets from the job the easier it is to lick them." His company has had a profit-sharing deal with its employes since 1919, has never had a work stoppage, and has never been organized by C.I.O. or A.F. of L. (its open-shop independent union: the Industrial Employes Association). And although he admitted to being a Republican, the nearest...
...before. Much of the Pacific, and perhaps Malaya, must be cleared before the Navy, even in over whelming force, can open and sustain Chennault's cherished entry through the China coast. But the Navy has recognized his need and his potentialities. The Army must give him more planes, lick terrific problems of air supply before he can do his utmost within unopened China. But the Army, like the Navy, has at last recognized Chennault and China...