Word: licks
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...adjustment and were cutting off the circulation in their arms. It was very cold and one big brawny lad, whose teeth were chattering like castanets, was saying to an appreciative audience, 'Yes sir, this man's army is all right but let's hurry up and lick Hitler, and then we can get out and when we do I am going to build me a great big glass house and I am going to keep it filled all the time with sunshine and I am going to sit in that sunshine with only my undershirt on, perspiring...
...wrote back and said he'd have the Adjutant General look into it. An' now my boys are going to come to see me. ... I told Mr. President that as long as this war is on I'd be willing to work ... for nothing until we lick those guys...
...Calif. 45 years ago, but he first found his fighting fists in Nome, Alaska, where his father hunted unsuccessfully for Yukon gold. Now a solid five feet, five inches of lean and tangy meat, Jimmy was then the smallest boy in school, and so he had to try to lick all the other boys. At high school (Los Angeles Manual Arts) and college (U. of California's School of Mines) he was successively bantam, welter and middleweight boxing champion...
...around the War Department think General Handy is the man for the job. He has sandwiched much careful study between many field assignments. Artillery was his branch in World War I and is still his hobby. When World War II was getting under way he had already done a lick in the War Plans Division as head of the planning group. Army men say he has "a combination of brains and common sense, a phenomenal memory and a keen knowledge of human psychology," that he is a "damned good soldier whom soldiers like to serve...
...grand piano's shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin's Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ripplingly. For a while it surged along according to Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...