Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like a jagged tooth, remained untreated for four months-until Day's half-dead cellmate, Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain, another torture victim, regained consciousness sufficiently to fashion, out of his own bandages and a stray bamboo stick, a cast...
...After weeks of tough talk, apparent inconsistency, and alarums about a revival of the cold war, the Administration last week seemed to have got its foreign policy act together. The policy, to put it in the simplest terms: speak a little more softly, but carry a big stick...
...stick, it was carried by Defense Secretary Harold Brown-and quite a stick it was: an 18-ft. cruise missile that is capable, in Brown's words, of splitting the center line of a runway 800 miles from its launch site. Brown flew out to New Mexico's Tularosa Basin for a highly publicized demonstration of the U.S. Navy's sleek Tomahawk cruise missile. As big jack rabbits nibbled unconcernedly at the sagebrush in the blazing morning sun, a camouflage-painted, torpedo-shaped object whistled barely 100 ft. above the White Sands Missile Range at 500 m.p.h...
...herself in a pile with Eleanor Roosevelt but a snapshot of her own father with the four-legged beasts. A chimp with a degree in Yerkish or Ameslan exhibits the ability to form concepts from his store of word symbols. The Indian who called a gun a "fire stick" or the remote tribe who named an airplane "steam chicken" seems to have employed a conceptual process similar to the chimpanzee who termed a duck a "water bird" or a radish "cry hurt fruit...
Brigham's--Harvard Square. Very standard stuff: burgers, fries, shakes and sandwiches, none of which is going to stick in your memory, or your digestive system, for very long. If you're into classic American soda-shop fare, though, this is the place. It's also open 24 hours a day, which comes in handy around exam time, but can also lead to some interesting experiences: around 4 a.m. or so some of the world's most intense weirdos pop out from under the sidewalks, and it seems they all make a bee-line for Brigham's. It must...