Word: licks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quarter of a century ago, an Indian government agronomist named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface. At the time, India had no tools tough enough for such a job. Then came World War II and with it an army of snorting U.S. tractors to build the Burma Road. When the war was over, Sethi persuaded his government to buy 200 of the tractors, teamed up with a U.S. engineer to found the Central Tractor Organization...
According to latest government estimates, 8,000-10,000 Huk guerrillas still lurk in the Philippine hills, and enough more are joining them each day to make up for those captured or surrendered. Defense Secretary Magsaysay hopes that he can lick the Huk problem "in maybe five years." But fighting Huks-as well as giving them land-is expensive. "Only God knows," says the Secretary, "whether our government can spend $89 million every year for five years and still live...
...hero still has enough energy to reach town, discover the real murderer, shoot it out with him, lick his neurosis, win the girl. Being only human, audiences are likely to fatigue more readily than Marshal Douglas...
...biggest U.S. movie exhibitor, United Paramount Theatres, Inc. has been hard hit by television. Unable to lick the enemy, United Paramount's 45-year-old President Leonard H. Goldenson last week decided to join it. He made a $25 million stock-swapping deal to buy American Broadcasting Co., third biggest television-radio network. Only two weeks before, Edward J. Noble, ABC's biggest stockholder (58%), had stated firmly that he would not sell. But Paramount had upped its offer enough to change his mind...
Would REPETOIRE go on to win at Churchill Downs? Views varied in the Jamaica paddock. Said Jockey McLean: "Four races, four wins-why not?" Said one veteran horseman: "BATTLE MORN lost a lot of ground and looked best." Said another: "Not one of them dogs can run a lick. To me they looked like the field for the Charlestown Derby...