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Reynolds and Chinese officials are exploring a possible future deal involving one of the company's other products: Kentucky Fried Chicken. For Reynolds executives, that prospect conjures up another dream, in which 1 billion Chinese lick their fingers after sampling Colonel Sanders' spicy recipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Ventures: China Signs a Puff Pact | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...streets and newsstands are safe between now and Wednesday, as an aging mob retires to lick its academic wounds, and a fresh junta prepares to take over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO CRIME | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

...ultimate Bulldog was later photographed trying to lick up the remains of chopped meat that had been rubbed across metal--the metal boots of John Harvard...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Games people play | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...elaborate. Under the klieg lights set up for TV and newsreel cameras, surrounded by microphones and 150 reporters, sat the unquestioned hero of the occasion: Dr. Jonas Edward Salk, 40, the determined, youthful-looking virologist who for five years had battled in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory to lick polio. Next to him sat the University of Michigan's Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., 54, one of the U.S.'s most eminent epidemiologists, who had been chosen by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to evaluate last year's nationwide tests of the Salk vaccine. For an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE 1955: It Works: Salk Polio Vaccine | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...that day who had been kissed by a cow. Early that morning I walked to the barn . . . and as I put a bucket of sweet feed over the fence, Chocolate, my big, black and beautiful cow that I used to carry everywhere in my arms, gave me a big lick on the cheek. Jesus don't love souls anymore than I love that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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