Word: licks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business School field Saturday who believed that history repeats itself had little reason to be optimistic about Harvard's chances. Last year Princeton hosted a Crimson squad that carried an identical 8-1 record with an identical loss to UConn and sent the booters back to Cambridge to lick the wounds of a 4-1 mauling. This year, however, Scalise and the team were determined to be prepared...
...Cohen and Jerry Vreenfield, high school friends from Long Island, started Ben & Jerry's in Burlington four years ago. Now, at age 30, they tend strongly toward plumpness and prosperity. In place of the traditional seven-year-old boy who must be bribed with dasher-licking rights before he will turn the crank of the hand freezer, they use a reduction gear to make the paddles of the freezer in their wholesale plant turn slowly enough. At their ice-cream parlor, a rowdily redecorated former gas station, an elderly White Mountain Freezer Co. rock-salt-and-ice contraption chunks...
...cream tasting is a notoriously erratic business. Not only subjectivity but sheer numbness is a problem. "Your taste buds get so cold they barely function on about the eighth lick," I.A.I.C.M. Spokesman Witte explains. "Your nose still works O.K., but ice cream doesn't smell much...
...couldn't lick a stamp. That is not so. But America's armed forces have planes that cannot fly for lack of spare parts and warships that are being kept in port by a shortage of sailors to crew them. U.S. Army units in Europe, by some estimates, would run out of ammunition after only two weeks of conventional war. Worst of all, perhaps, the U.S. has an announced commitment to oppose by force any Soviet move toward the Persian Gulf oilfields, but today might have to resort to tactical nuclear weapons to block such a thrust...
Eugene Birnbaum, a former official of the International Monetary Fund, argues that the Government must "lick inflation first." Then the gold standard would provide the needed "discipline for politicians and bureaucrats" to maintain stable prices. He and other gold advocates believe that without such a system, governments will always fall to the temptation of inflating their currencies rather than taking prudent anti-inflation steps...