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Princeton, Barnaby says, is "always good and deep" and will be doubly troublesome on their home courts. The Tigers, for the first time in several years, lack a really outstanding star, and "you don't need a man like Dale Junta on your team to lick them at number one." But there is always a problem of adjustment to playing conditions for the visiting team, and, although the varsity did well at Navy and Penn, Princeton will be a good deal stiffer...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Team Battles Princeton In Crucial EIL Test Tomorrow | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

...Never lick your chopsticks to get at last grains of rice sticking to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Officers & Gentlemen | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...though we need a Moses in this field," said Chairman Ellender to Witness Benson. Other committee members, Republicans as well as Democrats, made it plain that they did not see Bible-quoting Mormon Apostle Benson as the needed Moses. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington charged Benson with trying to "lick this problem with phrases." North Dakota Republican Milton R. Young rumbled that the lower wheat supports requested by Benson "would break every wheat farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Stumped Experts | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Even dogs are playing the stock market these days, and only natural-born bums can lick the Government. This seems to be the deceptively modest moral of two works of humor that have infiltrated the solemn ranks of a monumentally dull publishing season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dog's Best Friend | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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