Word: licks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Lick, Ind., Dr. Edwin Bennett Astwood of Tufts Medical School received the $1,000 Borden Award for thyroid research, and for finding ways to extract more ACTH from the pituitary glands of hogs...
Hollywood's moviemakers, who are beginning to admit out loud that they cannot lick TV, took another step toward joining it. Winding up a meeting of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, President (and onetime Georgia Governor) Ellis Arnall announced that the members had voted a unanimous endorsement of subscription television.* "Essentially, television is motion pictures," said Arnall bravely. "There is no real difference. And if subscription television is the way to make them work together...
...quarter of a century ago, an Indian government agronomist named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface. At the time, India had no tools tough enough for such a job. Then came World War II and with it an army of snorting U.S. tractors to build the Burma Road. When the war was over, Sethi persuaded his government to buy 200 of the tractors, teamed up with a U.S. engineer to found the Central Tractor Organization...
According to latest government estimates, 8,000-10,000 Huk guerrillas still lurk in the Philippine hills, and enough more are joining them each day to make up for those captured or surrendered. Defense Secretary Magsaysay hopes that he can lick the Huk problem "in maybe five years." But fighting Huks-as well as giving them land-is expensive. "Only God knows," says the Secretary, "whether our government can spend $89 million every year for five years and still live...
...hero still has enough energy to reach town, discover the real murderer, shoot it out with him, lick his neurosis, win the girl. Being only human, audiences are likely to fatigue more readily than Marshal Douglas...