Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard goalie Bob Bland had to be quick toward the end of the period when Patterson put the puck on a St. Lawrence stick right in front...
...police, who promptly arrested Webster. When told of the discovery he gulped out "Did they find the whole body?" Then he swallowed a small strychnine pill, which unfortunately had no effect even in his excited condition. At his trial three months later Webster admitted to striking Parkman with a stick of wood in the heat of an argument, but he stoutly maintained he had not meant to kill his creditor. Although the court-room gallery had room for only 100, it is reported that over 60,000 people saw some part of the trial...
...Kenneth J. Sanger, commanding officer of the Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, was wont to require attendance at his dramatic platform demonstrations. On a mast labeled "Free Enterprise," he would hoist signs representing such virtues as "Loyalty," "Patriotism." and "Self-Reliance." Then he would pick up a stick called "Communism," take a hefty swing-and watch all the virtues come tumbling down...
...plan is running into opposition. For a variety of reasons-old Latin fears of Yankee Big Stick intervention, concern over pro-Castro elements at home, an obvious but unconfessed desire to use the example of Cuba as a lever to pry more aid out of Washington-the big ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil and Chile), as well as Ecuador and Mexico, oppose any OAS moves against Castro...
...yell-mell, hard-sell, Sennett-with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines, of people's demockeracy, Coca-Colonization, peaceful noexistence, and the Deep Southern concept that all facilities are created separate but equal. What's more, Director Billy Wilder makes his attitude stick like Schlagobers slung in the spectator's kisser. He purposely neglects the high precision of hilarity that made Some Like It Hot a screwball classic and The Apartment a peerless comedy of officemanship. But in the rapid, brutal, whambam style of a man swatting flies with a pile driver...