Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research achievement that has nothing to do with the safety or effectiveness of false teeth, but may save their wearers embarrassment, was joyously reported to William Wrigley Jr. Co. stockholders: a new plastic to which chewing gum will not stick is almost ready for the denture trade...
...Minnesota and a tryout with the Washington Senators. He started playing goalie in ice-lot hockey only because the regular goalie once failed to show up for a game. His baseball still shows in his hockey: his first reflex is to catch the puck instead of blocking it with stick or pads as most other goalies tend...
Looking around for a better measuring stick, scientists found that quartz can be made to vibrate electrically at very constant frequency. A quartz disk will keep time for short periods with the accuracy of one part in 10 billion (the equivalent of a one-second error in 300 years). But after a week or so, quartz changes its frequency in an unpredictable...
...harsh and effective; Author William (Of All Possible Worlds) Tenn hypothesized a U.S. where veneration of the average has reached a stage in which all brilliance is suppressed, so that a race of intelligent Newfoundland retrievers is able to take over the government and cross-breed humans for their stick-throwing abilities...
...passion for accuracy was felt at the Met. He offered advice to conductors, directors, photographers, engineers and other singers. Several seasons ago, when he disagreed with the conductor's tempo during a Verdi opera, he grabbed the man by the throat and announced: "If you don't stick to the proper tempo, so help me I'll walk off the stage...