Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profits rip-off and quite another to prove it. Time and again, critics of the industry have denounced Big Oil's profits as everything from exorbitant to obscene. But not even Senator Henry Jackson, the industry's arch-opponent, has succeeded in making the charge stick...
...Road to Bingdom began May 2, 1903, in Tacoma, Wash. Bing was the son of a devout Roman Catholic. His real name, Harry Lillis Crosby, refused to stick. According to one legend, he so loved a comic strip called the Bingville Bugle that he became Bing himself. He also became a dedicated sportsman (football, baseball, fishing), a good singer in a house full of singing, and a conspicuous truant. He nevertheless went to Gonzaga University in Spokane as a law student. The only useful part of the course, which ended with his first amateur musical success, was public speaking. Said...
Field couldn't help but shake off the squad's tie today, as she looked forward to Revenge Time on Saturday. The stick-women will host Princeton this weekend, the same team which ruined their chances for an undefeated season last year with a 1-0 victory in the New Jersey rain...
...arrest for marijuana possession on July 16, 1973 during a routine visit to serve him with another arrest warrant for a probation violation. He was taken into custody for having collected the samples. A month later, Humes was arrested again for allegedly striking a police officer with a walking stick. On August 12, 1973, Humes was charged with assault and battery on a police officer and two counts of resisting arrest...
...ground on which it flourished was a traumatized Europe whose ruins and shaken regimes offered a kind of blank tablet: any design for Utopia, once drawn there, might stick. At one end of Europe, constructivism was apolitical; its center was the De Stijl group in Holland, led by Mondrian and Van Doesburg. The bright shuttles of color-red, blue, yellow, white and black, without tints or complementaries or tones-in works like Mondrian's Color Composition A, 1917, or Van Does-burg's majestic but unbuilt design of 1923 for a university hall-refer to no ideology...