Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Persons who must enter the Yard should carry a short stick or umbrella with them to ward off lunging squirrels. "Even a rabid squirrel can be routed by a sharp blow on the nose," Chernoff said...
...wonderin' out loud if we weren't goin' the wrong way. if we oughtn't to turn around. But we went up. finally, in a yellow, two-seat Piper Cub. The pilot kept me up there for half an hour, lettin' me take the stick and whip us through a few turns and glides. After that first ride, there wasn't any doubt what I was goin...
...under German corporate law, a directors' vote is not binding on management, and last week, politely rebuffing his board, Volkswagen's laconic President Heinz Nordhoff coolly announced that the increase would stick...
Lincoln's Epic. Northerners filled their writings with Calvinist fervor, certain that God had willed them to stamp out slavery. "This vision of Judgment," writes Wilson, "was the myth of the North." Though not at first an abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln made this "myth" stick by the power of his words. Driven by ambition to be President, he grew more apocalyptic in his comments on slavery as war approached. "He created himself as a poetic figure," writes Wilson, "and thus imposed himself on the nation. We have, in general, accepted the epic that Lincoln directed and lived and wrote." Some...
...powerful Harvard lacrosse team will meet an equally potent Princeton ten Saturday in what Crimson coach Bruce Munro has termed "the key to the Ivy League title." A varsity victory over the Tigers is a must for a successful season and could produce the first Ivy stick championship in University history...