Word: licks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class. If they want stamps, they can have as many as they need if they'll bring the mail up to the office. I know one thing. They're so selfish and lazy they won't answer any fan mail. Hell, there'll be so few letters, I'll lick 'em myself...
...Then we lick across the broadness of Nebraska--a monolonous, wide-butted stretch of sod. Smiling, broad curves traced in speed fling us onward, out between trucks that grind the air to a pulp and spit a back on us with 14 gears of churning cunning. Plunging to the depth of America--not East and not West, but vastly in between, we seem perched here forever-about nine hours...
...paste job that you wince. The special effects are on the Star Trek level--somewhat better than Rodan but much, much worse than 2001. But once night falls and the fire begins, and you get used to it, the destruction acquires a weird beauty of its own. The flames lick out from the 81st floor, and punch holes--bam-bam-bam--in the fabric of the building as the pressure breaks open huge wounds in the glass skin of the building and huge windows pop in series. Later, as the fire becomes white hot, the spectral beauty of the scene...
...shot of Scotch the minute I opened my eyes in the morning." It took Alcoholics Anonymous, treatment with Antabuse and his happy second marriage a few years later to pull him out. He has been on the wagon for a year with only occasional backsliding. "You don't lick all your problems," says Art, "but I've got most of mine under control...
Will America be blinded by this craze? We must face the whipped-cream threat and lick it before it meringues our morals. Ask not for whom the pie flies, it flies...