Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those hills are the toughest sort of going," said Patton in his room at head quarters. "A few men holding good positions are the hardest to lick. We can't kill many of them. They must have gotten their mortars in there with mules. I'd give anything for one good pack." On the third day the infantry commanders told General Patton they would be able to complete their assignments that day. General Patton ordered his armor forward. The infantry felt their urgency too strongly and pressed on too fast on the hillsides, not taking the very tops...
...battle gave great point to the Allies' first announcement of a joint attempt to lick their most serious problem. That attempt has been in process for weeks (TIME, March 15), but was made public and official for the first time last week...
...Trondheim fleet actually includes two carriers, they are probably converted merchantmen (the Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland are not thought to be ready). The British feel that they could lick such a force. But the burden of keeping enough ships at hand to counter the many moves open to this fleet in being has a "momentous effect" on Allied strategy...
...security report,† whose principle Parliament has adopted. Sir William, explaining his 200,000-word plan to Americans in London, admitted that it will be feasible financially only if the peace is made to bring full employment to the British people. His next task: to draft a plan to lick postwar unemployment. To that end, he will soon visit the U.S. and Canada to study their postwar economic problems...
Cantabridgians, like all good Americans, co-operated nobly with the air raid authorities, but maintained their traditional freedom of speech and action. Two slightly inebriated intellectuals kept up a torrid flow of claim and counter-claim on how to best lick Hitler during the maze of signals. When last seen, they were coming dangerously close to blows on the question of who was the better American...