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Word: licks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This denizen of some second-rate hell had been vainly nipping at my heels ever since I weaseled out of researching her pet article on an outbreak of Church Lady copycats in French Lick, Indiana. Avoiding her had become more and more difficult as she gradually sealed off my favorite escape routes and I ran out of relatives who were on their deathbed...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...prices of the Japanese companies and concluded that they are dumping, it is not at all certain that they need to resort to such tactics to outsell American competitors. Says Tokyo Economist Kinji Yajima: "No matter what the U.S. Government might do, American semiconductor makers just simply cannot lick their Japanese rivals." Japanese manufacturing costs are known to be very low, particularly for the mass-produced memory chips that make up about 18% of the market, since the Japanese have invested billions of dollars in building modern plants to turn them out in huge quantities. The American chipmakers acknowledge that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting The Trade Tilt | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...Spread your legs and let me lick your [expletive deleted]. I'm hungry for love," read another card, the student paper reported...

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Valentine's Mystery Solved at Princeton | 2/28/1987 | See Source »

Gumbo too thin. Gotsta be thick, like Elmer's Glue. And where de rice? It don' come wid rice? Mon Dieu! Not too spicy, eider. But we add tobasco. Plenty. Some like it hot. Some like it cold. Some like it in dey pot . . . Eh! Octav'! Don' lick deh spoon...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...White House seems to be in an if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em mood. Late last week Ronald Reagan's speechwriters were still circulating competing drafts of the State of the Union address the President is to deliver Tuesday night. One point not in much dispute is that the President will stress the need to restore U.S. "competitiveness." He plans to propose some form of retraining for workers, a loosening of antitrust laws to enable American companies to band together against foreign competition, and increased federal assistance to American research and development. Ohio Congressman Bill Gradison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flocking Together on Trade | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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