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...security report,† whose principle Parliament has adopted. Sir William, explaining his 200,000-word plan to Americans in London, admitted that it will be feasible financially only if the peace is made to bring full employment to the British people. His next task: to draft a plan to lick postwar unemployment. To that end, he will soon visit the U.S. and Canada to study their postwar economic problems...
Cantabridgians, like all good Americans, co-operated nobly with the air raid authorities, but maintained their traditional freedom of speech and action. Two slightly inebriated intellectuals kept up a torrid flow of claim and counter-claim on how to best lick Hitler during the maze of signals. When last seen, they were coming dangerously close to blows on the question of who was the better American...
Generally, Britons thought that a loss of one-fiftieth of 1% of the long, grinding hours they work to lick the Axis is a pretty good show...
Smith's records do more than make military operations easier. "One of the biggest things we have to lick in soldiers serving overseas," he explains, "is homesickness. If a soldier knows the basic phrases of a language, he'll get a smile instead of a blank stare, and he'll begin to feel that he 'belongs...
When a candidate for Governor of Mississippi threatened to "lick Fred Sullens, editor of the Jackson Daily Liar," Sullens Page-Oned: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with...