Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outcome should be a first-rate show for bystanders. For Colonel McCormick at 61 may be the least popular U.S. publisher, as well as the most arrogant, contentious and unpredictable, but he is one of America's most successful publishers and a hard man to lick. Only two years ago Hearst's Herald & Examiner folded, just like every other rival Chicago morning paper...
First came a report from French Lick that Indiana Republicans had issued a manifesto, read Wendell Willkie out of the party for his support of the Administration's foreign policy. The report was false, but gave a fair indication of the feelings of many a Republican politico...
Thus did the new head of OPM's Contract Distribution Division, after nine weeks in his job, set out to lick the most serious economic problem now facing the U.S.: the democratization of defense. His attack had characteristic energy and bravura. He worked from 9 a.m. to midnight, ate 20-minute lunches, burned out three assistants.* From the Budget Bureau he asked a whopping appropriation: $23,470,725 for the next twelve months. Of this, $5,000,000 was for his gigantic promotion plans, including the traveling circus, $1,000,000 worth of permanent exhibits and $422,500 worth...
After five weeks of siege, the defenders were still firm in their decision. Wherever the German wave seemed to lick too close, the Russians scooped it back a little. They used a new armored train as a battering ram for their attacks, and inside the city workers labored day and night toward the completion of two more such trains. One Russian lunge drove back the German right wing, restoring the line to its position in early September. The Reds sneaked across Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland in small boats to harass the German flanks. The Germans seemed...
...more color, more of a grim military note. Men gathered in hundreds to sing God Bless America, and some of them wept. From the sidewalks they shouted "To hell with Hitler." The spirit was the old spirit: "What son-of-a-bitch, or combination of sonsofbitches, thinks he can lick us?" World War II had wrought a great change. Legion membership rose 20,000 in 1939; 25,000 more in 1940; 30,000 more this year...