Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cutting thin slices of the pith of the papyrus plant, laying them side by side and pressing two layers together with their grains running at right angles. Professor Bataille thinks that no glue or paste was used; the natural sap of the fresh-cut pith made the layers stick together. Sometimes the hot-water treatment restores the sheets until they are almost as good...
...music and coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm. The powerful rhythmic din is the voice of the working class making itself heard, and the officers almost blanch at its menace...
...blood. Less commonly known, said Dr. Sussman, is that 80% of people have similar substances, from which ABO grouping can be determined, in their sputum, saliva, nasal secretions, urine and seminal fluid. To prove it in his laboratory, Dr. Sussman got an assistant to lick a postage stamp and stick it on a piece of paper. This was left on the lab table, exposed to air, sun and dust. At the end of a month, one-quarter of the stamp's back yielded enough material to identify the licker as type...
This summer Walter Lippman wrote that as a candidate Goldwater faced two alternatives. Either he would stick to his radical conservatism and be discredited as it received more publicity, or he would soften his point of view to become acceptable to a wider portion of the electorate. Goldwater's recent vote against the popular test ban treaty indicates, for the present at least, a decision to maintain the integrity of his previous beliefs. Whether this implies "political suicide," as Lippmann contends, remains, for the moment, academic...
...meet-the-new-man affair. How was the Corps these days? "In the highest state of readiness in my time," Greene answered. Would he follow Dave Shoup's policies? Yes, by insisting that every man be "a marine 24 hours a day." How did he regard the swagger stick, which Shoup disliked? "It is still optional but not very popular." Then someone inquired how Greene planned to use modern technology in running the Corps...