Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America's best hope for the future in Davis Cup competition, is also willing to risk losing his amateur status to play against the pros at Wimbledon. "I will play if I can get leave," says Ashe, currently serving as a lieutenant in the Army. "I'll stick my neck out - regardless of whether the U.S.L.T.A. backs Britain...
Brinton scrupulously avoided a show of sentimentality during his lecture, preferring to stick to his accustomed erudite style. He did allow himself, one prediction, "the great bulk of those facing me today will be alive in 1984, and will find the world not vastly different from what it is today...
...mile hike" [Nov. 24]. From my observation of General Tompkins, as we hiked with thousands of (wide-eyed) recruits on weekly twelve-mile jaunts at Parris Island, I can assure you this statement is incorrect-there is no limp. The general does carry a walking stick when hiking which, in his words, "is used to beat off the elephants." RAY W. BOWLES Major, U.S.M.C. Parris Island...
...esthetic evocation of the past. Yet it observes the '30s not as lived but as remembered, the perspective rippled by the years to show that there are mirages of time as well as space. The nostalgic Technicolor romanticism alters reality, distorting it as a straight stick under water appears to be bent...
...going to stick with that question until we hammer out a recommendation," Dean Ford, chairman of the CEP, said yesterday. The Administrative Board has already recommended that the language requirement be abolished, but it is the CEP that formulates Faculty policy on academic questions...