Word: stick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bull-session on the probable causes and effects of Truman's victory, and they invited Associate Professor Louis Hartz to join the discussion. Unfortunately Hartz did not join the discussion very much, chiefly because he was more polite than most of the undergraduates present. He therefore did not stick his two bits in while whoever was speaking took a second off to inhale after a comma, which is what everybody else did whenever Hartz was speaking...
...Reader Smith will be disappointed: 1) the 72-hour press run of the Oppenheimer cover was completed long before the first vote was cast; 2) there wasn't a single stick of scrapped type in the shop (the four-page election section was written, edited and printed the day after the election, as planned...
Most upperclassmen who choose to stick with their roommates will have to compete with the Class of '52 for room allocations next fall, although a very small number may get into vacated suites in February...
Promise in Potsdam. There had been rumors that publication of Eisenhower's book was carefully held up until after the election. But Ike's only stick of political dynamite has already become pretty damp powder. In Potsdam one day, Ike was out driving with President Truman, whom he had found "sincere, earnest, and a most pleasant person with whom to deal." Said Truman, all of a sudden: "General, there is nothing that you may want that I won't try to help you get. That definitely and specifically includes the presidency in 1948." Ike says he replied...
...Sermon on the Mount in a discussion of the murder of prostitutes "by mutilation, dismemberment, garrotting, throat-slitting and clubbing." ("I have a small collection of moral remarks," confessed one hack merrily, "all nicely cut & dried, and when I am at a loss to fill my chapter, I stick...