Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Abbott Joseph ("Joe") Liebling was six, he read in a New York newspaper that a heavyweight named Carl Morris was the White Hope to lick World Champion Jack Johnson. A couple of days later, a fighter named Jim Flynn licked the trunks off the White Hope. That was in 1911. Joe Liebling has mistrusted newspapers ever since...
...oranges. Their enthusiasm is adjectival: the university is big, varied, young, impatient, aggressive, progressive. Especially big. Its interests run as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. At Scripps Institution in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya), Cal oceanographers study the depths of the Pacific, and at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings, forests, and the world's biggest cyclotron. On its 10,000 acres grow tomatoes, peaches, oranges, olives, avocados, alfalfa...
...part of an all-out Allied Offensive against the Devil. You're going to meet a people who like Americans and whom you will like. The Angels have much in common with us; they are virtuous, peace-loving, God-fearing people, and they're out to lick the Devil...
...comet of the 12th Magnitude--invisible to the naked eye--was reported by the University yesterday. The new body was observed at the Lick Observatory, San Jose, California on July 18 and again on July...
Last week, with his rabbit's foot dangling at his belt, Roanoke's champ coolly sized up 39 rival deadeye marbles champs from Montana to Georgia. Larry had to lick them all to win the 23rd annual National Marbles Tournament at Wildwood...