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Word: stick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing else, Thelma Stovall has found a novel way to make the Governor of Kentucky stick to his old Kentucky home. If he wanders too far or tarries too long beyond the state's borders, he had better look back and ask, "What's Thelma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kentucky's Shrewd Lady | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...death. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Let the people rule. Horace Greeley's popularization of "Go West, young man" not only helped in spire California-bound migration but even today conjures up appealing images. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" brings, back the vanished world of Theodore Roosevelt's America. Modern America? The war to end war. A chicken in every pot. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Remember Pearl Harbor. We shall overcome. Hell no, we won't go. Whip inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Slogan Power! Slogan Power! | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...this point, Fleming, about whom Coach McLaughlin said yesterday, "He can play like a stick of dynamite, or he can fizzle," exploded on the court, blocking shots, pumping in two jumpers, and intimidating Yale fast breaks as the hoopsters widened...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Hoopsters Dump Yale, 83-71 | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...course, he thinks it's a great idea; and the group, complete with its own Society tie (a goalie stick embossed on a zero, representing the ultimate goalie experience--a shutout--gathers to discuss the glories of yesteryear. Fitzsimmons says that the Society's main by-law is that "goalies never make mistakes...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Canterbury Tales: | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

...down to the village, one notices the ancient town fountain, partly hidden by the new power substation. Farther down the hill, one catches a glimpse of the 11th century door to the city as it gracefully arches across an unused alley. The tattered remains of some gaudy political posters stick to an old brick wall. Politics have divided the town, especially since a city council election last year which pitted the town's barrelmaker against a prominent pear farmer...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

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