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...lick 'cm, join 'cm" was Truman's method. He guarded himself by inviting reporters, Cabinet members, and friends to swim with him. His selection of shirts also helped him show that he was just any other hard worked executive on a needed vacation. With those hybrid Hawaiian Crosby choices, he eclipsed everything except his lined but happy face...
...longer a pushover. We're gaining. We are better off than a year ago and infinitely better off than two years ago. There are still problems to be solved, but if the curve continues upward, we will lick the problems...
...newcomer to Westinghouse, Price's biggest worry was whether or not he could win the respect of the old hands. For a while it seemed a question whether he would lick the job or it would lick him. He chain-smoked cigars, often 20 a day. He developed ulcers worrying whether he could make good in an industry completely new to him. Price whipped his ulcers, grew assured enough not to mind the jokes about his mechanical ignorance, and cut down his smoking...
Every new fire was a new problem. In Rumania, the caved-in well had made a crater 250 ft. wide and 65 ft. deep filled with small ground fires and a tangled web of melted pipeline. It took Kinley six months to lick the fire. In Oklahoma, when his leg was caught in some machinery and broken, Kinley got it set in a cast, went back to direct the fire fighting from horseback. In Venezuela, when shifting winds blew the fire on to him, he spent five weeks on his stomach in a hospital recuperating. In Texas...
...world's toughest. Millionaire Briggs Cunningham built a car with a souped-up Chrysler engine that took fourth in the same race. Some small manufacturers, notably Britain's Allard Motor Co., built cars with Cadillac and Chrysler engines and many standard American parts and saw them lick the ears off finely tuned European sports cars. And in the last Mexican road race, Lincoln sedans came in one, two, three in the stock-car class...