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Word: stick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REMEMBER Margaret Mead. In ninth grade she addressed a school assembly. More than her words, her image stuck in my mind--a solid figure holding a forked stick. It is the same sort of picture that appeared two weeks ago in newspapers and magazines when, at 76, she succumbed to a year-long struggle with cancer. Accompanying the pictures was a lot of praise...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Mead: A Humanist's Legacy | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...better ones) is inventive, absurdist, existential, savagely funny--like a script by William Faulkner and Jean-Paul Sartre. Good books, some of those novels, but sometimes just too frustratingly weird. Crews also used to write a column called "Grits" for the pre-Felker Esquire, and the best of them stick in your memory like Georgia mud to your boots--an old, nearly-blind mule trader sagely discusses the art and artifices of a trade that is almost dead; a poacher takes Crews alligator hunting in the Florida swamps. And now in A Childhood, we have an account which blends...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Like Georgia Mud | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...There can be and should be no linkage" between SALT and other in- ternational issues. Warnke said. "It should not be used as either a carrot or a stick" to try to induce the Soviets to act as we would like' towards "Africa, covert agents, or internal dissidents," he added...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Warnke Says Superpowers Must Now Disarm Further | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...Javers of the San Francisco Chronicle was hit in the left shoulder. He crawled behind a plane wheel. NBC Cameraman Bob Brown stayed on his feet, filming the approaching riflemen. "He was incredibly tenacious," Javers reported. "Then I saw him go down. And I saw one of the attackers stick a shotgun right into his face?inches away, if that. Bob's brain was blown out of his head. It splattered on the NBC minicam. I'll never forget that sight as long as I live. I ran, and then I dived head first into the bush and scrambled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Stick to the Issue...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Dean Rejects Renaming Of Library | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

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