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Word: licks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question is, should a gentleman lick the wasp-stung buttock of a lady in distress? Please Don't Walk Around in the Nudel fails to provide an adequate answer, but it does pose the problem in a delightful fashion...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...coaxed the farmers into using a variety of conservation practices: planting trees, contour plowing, diversifying crops, enriching their land with TVA-developed fertilizers. One byproduct of the reforestation has been the cre ation of a $500 million private forest-products industry. TVA has also fought mosquitoes to lick the valley's malaria, which in 1934 had infected more than 30% of the people living along the river in northern Alabama. Since 1949 not a single case of local origin has been reported along the reservoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural Resources: Such a Lovely Green Valley | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...Charlie Halleck is mighty sorry that he ever bit into this apple," chortled a House Democratic leader last week. "They've picked the worst possible issue to fight us on and we're going to lick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: If We'd Run from This One . . . | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Lick 'em they did. Next day the House approved a $450 million appropriation for emergency public works, which had only a few days before been voted down by the House Appropriations Committee. Minority Leader Halleck, who had led a party-line fight against the bill, was disappointed. But he could hardly have been surprised: the public works appropriation was tied to aid for economically depressed areas; as such, it affected the home districts of a vast majority of Representatives. And since when have politicians started voting against the pork barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: If We'd Run from This One . . . | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...kayoed Alex Mitoff. In Los Angeles, 12,000 fans watched him knock out Alejandro Lavorante in the fifth round. "I only wish." sighed a California matchmaker, "that Cassius Clay were quadruplets." Even Jack Dempsey was impressed: "I don't care if this kid can't fight a lick. I'm for him. Things are live again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dream | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

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