Word: stick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McInnis will stick with the same infield during the trip but will try out all his outfielders...
They all have a copy of the Morning Telegraph and then they buy a 50 cent "hot tip" card. After they pore over these for half an hour, they stick a pin into their programs and rush down to the window to slap two bucks on a nag that's in the race racket because it's too old to pull a milk wagon...
...hostile use of the stick is concerned, lacrosse players seldom brain a man while the reforce is looking...
...Yale functions, made speeches with a wit that seemed to mellow with age. Last month, though incurably ill with cancer, he made one of his speeches at the 25th anniversary of his nursing school ("I have only one criticism ... of [nurses]. When they use a needle to stick you, they always choose a blunt needle"). That was the last time Yale ever heard him. Last week, at 79, James Rowland Angell died...
...churches," declared Dulles, "have played a notable part in changing the attitudes of our people . . ." It was Christian leadership, he said, that committed the U.S. to helping weaker nations (e.g., the Marshall Plan), while it permitted a big stick to enforce a just and Christian peace in the world. "And if, over the past three years, our nation has dealt with the Soviet Union on a basis that has been firm but that, for the most part, avoided provocation, it is largely because our Christian people have, on the one hand, seen the danger lying behind beguiling Communist propaganda...