Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buzz Wagner could lick the Japs: he had seven planes to his credit in aerial combat, and he had probably destroyed 50 more on the ground. But no man can lick fickle luck. Last week, in a solitary routine flight between Eglin Field, Fla. and Maxwell Field, Ala., Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner, at 26 the youngest officer of his rank, was missing. It was just about a year after the U.S. had first heard of Buzz Wagner...
...need a buildup, but one look is reassuring. Director Raoul Walsh and Actor Bond have recreated him to the life. In training camps he alternately obliterates sparing partners and barrels of beer; childern follow him in the streets and in barroms strong men quail when he roars: "I can lick any man in the world." Partician Miss Smith feels his biceps and nearly swoons with delight. Even though Director Walsh and Gentleman Jim make a monkey out of him in the ring, his gymnasial fragrance lingers...
...Massillon High; thereby breaking a winning streak of 52 games; before a crowd of 22,000; at Massillon, Ohio. Same day, ex-Massillon Coach Paul Brown, who made the Massillon Tigers into the country's most famed scholastic eleven (TIME, Nov. 2), saw his Ohio State University footballers lick Michigan, 21-to-7, for the Western Conference ("Big Ten") championship...
...wrote back and said he'd have the Adjutant General look into it. An' now my boys are going to come to see me. ... I told Mr. President that as long as this war is on I'd be willing to work ... for nothing until we lick those guys...
...Calif. 45 years ago, but he first found his fighting fists in Nome, Alaska, where his father hunted unsuccessfully for Yukon gold. Now a solid five feet, five inches of lean and tangy meat, Jimmy was then the smallest boy in school, and so he had to try to lick all the other boys. At high school (Los Angeles Manual Arts) and college (U. of California's School of Mines) he was successively bantam, welter and middleweight boxing champion...