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Word: licks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was the turning point. Soon Steeves was catching fish, supplementing them with garden snakes ("They weren't bad"). He rigged a snare with his cocked revolver at a salt lick, finally bagged deer. In mid-June, certain that his health had returned, he made his first try at getting out by going down the torrential Idle fork of the Kings River, attempted to swim across. He tied his summer flights suit and boots around his neck and gripped his underwear in his teeth, but, out in midstream, he found that he couldn't make it, lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Bad Earth | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...refused to say.* While his icy-eyed, vigorous father showed every sign of interest in his own undoing before the labor investigating committee. Beck Junior exhibited nothing but slouching boredom as he heard charges that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited $19,500 on the sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals, and received more than $5,000 in trinkets-cameras, washing machines, etc.-from Teamster Pal Nathan Shefferman. The one noticeable ripple in Beck Junior's sea of silence came when John McClellan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Like Father | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...problem, it was also the truth. Bluff Edgar Eisenhower, a popular and respected member of Tacoma's legal community, loves to recall how he and Dwight (two years younger) used to fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another." In fact, he still boasts that he can lick young Dwight any time, any place-a statement that Ike heartily denies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: What Edgar Said | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...just not good enough," insisted a CBS executive. "We never discussed the script from the point of view of its subject matter. Our decision was based simply on our feeling that it wasn't a successful script. We just couldn't lick some of the creative problems." Retorted the author, John Secondari, head of ABC's Washington news bureau and himself a commentator: "I absolutely believe that it is a matter of CBS policy, not a question of dramatic merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Free Air | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Coach Bill McCurdy is as much at a loss to explain this phenomenon as anyone. He compared his team to the "Little Engine That Could." They believed that they were the best team in the league and could lick any other team on any specified afternoon. They were almost cocky," he explained with understandable pride...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/26/1957 | See Source »

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