Word: licks
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...Charlie Halleck is mighty sorry that he ever bit into this apple," chortled a House Democratic leader last week. "They've picked the worst possible issue to fight us on and we're going to lick...
...Lick 'em they did. Next day the House approved a $450 million appropriation for emergency public works, which had only a few days before been voted down by the House Appropriations Committee. Minority Leader Halleck, who had led a party-line fight against the bill, was disappointed. But he could hardly have been surprised: the public works appropriation was tied to aid for economically depressed areas; as such, it affected the home districts of a vast majority of Representatives. And since when have politicians started voting against the pork barrel...
...welcoming parade that "crippled the town." He bought a "rosy pink" hardtop Cadillac on time. And he signed to fight his first professional bout-a six-rounder with a former smalltown West Virginia police chief named Tunney Hunsaker. "He's a bum," confided Cassius. "I'll lick him easy." But he still got up at 5 a.m. every day to run at least two miles in Chickasaw Park, and he boxed a few fast training rounds with his younger brother Rudolph...
...kayoed Alex Mitoff. In Los Angeles, 12,000 fans watched him knock out Alejandro Lavorante in the fifth round. "I only wish." sighed a California matchmaker, "that Cassius Clay were quadruplets." Even Jack Dempsey was impressed: "I don't care if this kid can't fight a lick. I'm for him. Things are live again...
...Past, lures the groom into a cobwebby conservatory filled with jungle plants to play a possibly symbolic game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab office where a horn-rimmed boss-lady screams into a jangle of telephones and thrusts envelopes to a flunky with: "Wrap it, lick it, and mail it!" She represents The Present, and is far too busy to help. An astronaut, who is The Future, offers a cup of tea but little sympathy: "Your key? But why look for key or door, with so many stars to explore?" A mute bellhop prances...