Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered for years: Indians tie him up, tomahawk him; maple syrup falls on his bare feet, dogs of all sizes lick it off; a covey of surgeons, to whom he tries to explain his predicament, go to work on him under the impression that he is insane...
Henry Ford threw down the gauntlet to a gossip columnist. Merry-Go-Rounder Drew Pearson had broadcast that 80-year-old Ford is not up to his job. Cried the wiry octogenarian: "I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better in my life. I don't know how old or young this Pearson person is, or what shape he's in or what he has ever done in the way of athletics. But I'll meet him." Forty-five-year-old Pearson suggested a race-"with any vehicle, foot, bicycle, or Model...
...Licking. In Gallup, N.M., Dorothy Scanlon, selling war stamps, stared a customer straight in the eye, accepted his challenge that he would buy all the 25? stamps she could lick in ten minutes, fell to licking, ten minutes later received...
...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
Phil Ault, of United Press, wrote: "[The American Army has] long ago dropped the attitude that any five Americans could lick any five Germans automatically just because they were Americans and had fine equipment...