Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moro," said Jack Pershing, after fighting in the Philippines, "can lick his own weight in wildcats." Moro fighting men on the island of Mindanao last week carried out two of the wildest and most feline raids of the war. They sneaked on cat feet into a Japanese supply base near Digos, a port on the Gulf of Davao, and burned warehouses containing "large stocks of food, gasoline, ammunition and other military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear...
...Superman is now in a really tough spot that even he can't get out of. His patriotism is above reproach. As the mightiest, fightingest American, he ought to join up. But he just can't. In the combat services he would lick the Japs and Nazis in a wink, and the war isn't going to end that soon. On the other hand, he can't afford to lose the respect of millions by failing to do his bit or by letting the war drag...
...their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
...Author. The Foreigners is an excellent introduction to China and her people in war & peace. It also introduces a distinctly talented if uneven new writer. Preston Schoyer left Yale in 1933 determined never to do a lick of work if he could possibly help it. Nevertheless, for two years he taught and coached at Yale-in-China. After graduate work at Yale in Oriental studies, he spent another year writing short stories in Manhattan. In 1938 he returned to wartime China...
...used up six cans of potash. She wore a hole in the kitchen floor pursuing a stain. "I shall never have a greater devotion," said Author Rawlings, "than I had from this woman." Soon 'Geechee grew confidential. She explained her blind eye: "I disremember did I get the lick before they put me in the jailhouse or endurin' the time they was puttin' me in the jailhouse...