Traffic is still dense along Hicks Street but no one rushes him.
In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Hicks said he was given a desk job that is the equivalent of being “put in closet.”
Hicks said he believed simply scrambling those jets would have scared off the attackers in the second wave.
In often-dramatic testimony, Hicks provided new details of the attack in the evening of Benghazi.
“People in Benghazi had been fighting all night,” Hicks said.
"I go for stoppum Hicks' ranch," said Good Indian, without any attempt at equivocation.
But when he mentioned that Hicks had a companion, she desired to know his name.
The corpulent and swarthy Hicks stood dejectedly before her.
She asked me whether I did not know that Hicks was a Nonconformist.
And when Hicks and Nelthorp came, did she not discourse with them about the battle and the army?
late 14c. as a pet form of masc. proper name Richard. Meaning "awkward provincial person" was established by 1700 (cf. rube); earlier it was the characteristic name of a hosteler, hackneyman, etc. (late 14c.), perhaps via alliteration. The adjective is recorded by 1914.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be. [attributed to U.S. humorist Robert Quillen (1887-1948)]
modifier
: wasn't bad looking in a hick way/ that hick chief of police
noun
A rural person; a simple, countrified man or woman; apple-knocker, rube: The automobile largely nullified the outward distinctions between hick and city slicker
[1565+; fr a nickname of Richard, thought of as a country name, as Reuben is the base of ''rube'']
