Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjustment and were cutting off the circulation in their arms. It was very cold and one big brawny lad, whose teeth were chattering like castanets, was saying to an appreciative audience, 'Yes sir, this man's army is all right but let's hurry up and lick Hitler, and then we can get out and when we do I am going to build me a great big glass house and I am going to keep it filled all the time with sunshine and I am going to sit in that sunshine with only my undershirt on, perspiring...
...around the War Department think General Handy is the man for the job. He has sandwiched much careful study between many field assignments. Artillery was his branch in World War I and is still his hobby. When World War II was getting under way he had already done a lick in the War Plans Division as head of the planning group. Army men say he has "a combination of brains and common sense, a phenomenal memory and a keen knowledge of human psychology," that he is a "damned good soldier whom soldiers like to serve...
...grand piano's shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin's Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ripplingly. For a while it surged along according to Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...
Genghis Khan solved the iron-ration problem by issuing each of his soldiers a straw so that his warriors could thus tap their horses' veins and drink the fortifying blood. The U.S. Army believes it may lick the iron-ration problem with Field Ration K-a three-meal package of concentrated food, which contains 3,726 calories and can be packed in a heat-and-cold-proof...
...sprawling resort hotel at French Lick Springs, Ind., famed for Pluto Water, Owner Tom Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...