Word: licks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infighting over who was to succeed Kishi. Japan's big businessmen, anxious to get the country back to normal, were throwing their weight behind Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda, 61, the tough-minded economist who had helped the U.S. occupation's Economic Adviser (and Detroit banker) Joseph Dodge lick Japan's postwar inflation. The Socialists hinted that they might offer parliamentary support to Kenzo Matsumuru, one of the 27 Liberal Democrats who did not vote for the treaty, and who was recently feted in Peking as a backer of closer ties between Japan and Red China...
Kono virtually guarantees the U.S. a gold medal. Undefeated in world championship competition since 1952, he has broken some 30 world records. Even more unusual, Kono seems able to gain or lose weight at will and still lick the planet. In the Olympics he won the 148-lb. class in 1952, the 181-lb. class in 1956. In non-Olympic competition, he set a world record in the igS-lb. class...
...eleven he was coolly offering advice to the club champion?and having it gratefully accepted. Palmer never tired of practicing. "He'd be yelling, 'Watch me! Watch me! Watch me, Pap!'" recalls Deacon Palmer. "You'd get so sick of him you'd feel like hitting him a lick...
Time Past. Unlike Tancredi, the prince is too proud, too much the unbending leopard on his own family crest, to be able to lick his wounds by joining those who inflict them. In the mid-span of his life he courts oblivion ("While there's death there's hope"), and measures out the ''sediment of grief which, accumulating day by day, would in the end be the real cause of his death...
More and more editorial voices urged that Britain should forthwith seek membership in the Common Market, arguing in effect, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em." British businessmen, skeptical of the government's dreams of a compromise bridge between the Six and the Seven, are making a separate peace by opening factories within the Common Market or linking up with Common Market firms...