Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Germany issued a special twelve-pfennig stamp advertising Italo-German solidarity (with pictures of Hitler and Mussolini, fasces, swastika and inscription) the British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast: "Now we can lick them both at once...
...leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt for his rhinoceros whip, jumped to his feet, whipped the leopard out of the tent and into the jungle. Walking back to his tent, feeling bad about the way his pet had turned out, he felt something lick his hand. It was his pet leopard. The other one had come out of the jungle...
...fellow-traveling consisted largely of letting Communist-front organizations use his name on letterheads, considered this one of "the shames of my life." He also considered Communists "pernicious" -for Mumford, strong language. Malcolm Cowley, writing a book "to clarify my mind," craved only to be left in peace to lick his spiritual wounds...
...testimony of Pittsburgh newspaper reporters who had attended debutante luncheons, hunt festivities, other social functions at the club. Their reports, the Government contended, destroyed the Duquesne's luncheon-club theory. Just before the court adjourned the case for two weeks, one Pittsburgh sports editor got in a final lick. Asked whether drinks had been served at a club dinner he attended, the editor answered dolefully: "I remember that particularly well-there was just one drink...
Cline was impressed by the British character and described the English as "a tough bunch to lick...