Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Center of the revolution was big, bald Engineer Henry J. Kaiser, whose motto has always been: Who can't? Kaiser had gone to Washington with a big, bold plan to build 5,000 cargo planes and lick the shipping shortage-the kind of vast, impossible vision that Americans love. At Washington's hands, the vision had suffered shabby treatment...
...Osteoarthritis-grandfather's back-breaking "rheumatism"-which is a degenerative ailment of old age, rarely appears before 40. The cause is the normal wear & tear on the joints. Yet osteoarthritis afflicts some people who have never done a lick of work in their lives, while lifelong toilers often escape it. So doctors suspect a hereditary tendency-i.e., some folk are born with tough joints, others with weak ones...
...LICK SEVEN-Robert Richards -Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...wrong, Blot," said the Jester, watching the flames lick up a Good Humor. "That's only the burglar alarm in Roger Kent's. The lightning must have set it off in some manner or other. It's pretty damn seldom what happens around here...
...twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...