Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are thousands of us who have worked like hell since '31 and '32 trying to lick a depression, get experience, get established, to climb the ladder . . . yet we gladly chuck it all to serve our country. Now, some of the boys are declaring strikes over petty arguments or small wage increases and in so doing bottleneck industry which makes possible a well-equipped Army...
...Havana, where his prancing Dodgers, looking less than ever like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...sent a research chemist, Harvard's bespectacled young president, James Bryant Conant, as head of a mission to gather scientific data on England's machinery of war. Back from England came trusted Harry Hopkins. At LaGuardia Field, he told reporters: "I don't think Hitler can lick these people. I think he's up against as tough a crowd as there is, and I think they have the military stuff, with the help we can give them, to win. It won't be a stalemated war." Then he sped to the Hotel Roosevelt...
Franklin Roosevelt: Joe, I want to help England lick Hitler...
...little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...