Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back in 1901, when some Jap cops in Yokohama paddled him with the flat of their swords. "I've never forgotten that licking" he says. "It started smarting again when I heard about Pearl Harbor." To a Navy dentist brooding about his lack of teeth, he observed: "We're going to fight and lick the Japs, sir, but we're not going to eat them.'' The Navy took...
...Washington dateline, a report of a conversation between Secretary Knox and China's T. V. Soong. Said the dispatch: "In an effort to cheer up the Chinese statesman, Knox patted him on the back and said, 'That's all right, T. V., we'll lick those yellow devils...
...Those of us who can't fight can learn to make airplanes. Those of us who can't make airplanes can darn the airplane-makers' socks or cook their meals. Some of us can register those who are drafted. Some of us can answer telephones and lick stamps and run errands. Surely there is a place for everyone...
...Henderson's ability to lick inflation by this piecemeal method has nothing to do with his partial power over prices. For Henderson is also the administrator of civilian supply, with complete power over rationing. Without a Gestapo no price ceiling is effective on scarce materials whose supply is uncontrolled; and when the supply is controlled-i.e., rationed-the price ceiling enforces itself. Thereafter, as both Britain and Canada know, control of inflation is a Treasury matter: more taxes, more savings...
...taken a back seat when Lewis was president. John L. Lewis kept a glowering silence. If he had thought Murray was a pushover, he had been wrong. Said Phil Murray, looking more like a strong boy of labor: "This man Lewis never saw the day when he could lick...