Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning of each semester to divide the use of the two rooms among the different societies. If a society fails to get a room when it wants it, it can try to sign up during the semester, if another society relinquishes its spot. Otherwise, the society must stick to the confines of its dining hall...
There is no carrot with the stick. All I see ahead is an endless road of escalating prices against nonescalating income, with vast uncertainty about a better future for our children and theirs. I don't mind pulling in my belt, but I need more incentive than their mere survival...
...seems as if everyone has something to say about the salaries in baseball: newscasters, congressmen, Johnny Carson, Penthouse, even political columnists. Why should anyone, they say, who hits a ball with a stick around a grass field earn more than the president of the United States? College graduates ought to pass up law, medicine, and business, and head for the baseball diamond. With all due respect to the fans, commentators, columnists, and owners who utter cries of indignation at those fat contracts and predict the demise of the game, there are a number of justifications for the players' present bargaining...
...miles in the previous eight days and had not made a single contact, but he seemed satisfied. After his departure, discipline collapsed. When a kettle of soup was produced for the soldiers' lunch, a wild scramble broke out among the troops. Finally, amid much shouting and cursing, a stick-wielding officer beat his men back into an orderly food line. Apparently, the army is still underfed...
Then goalie Sukie MacGraw pulled another in a string of unbelievable saves, thwarting a Jumbo fast break that looked like a free shot at the net. Coming way out of the goal, MacGraw hit the stick of the lone attacker as she spun around to shoot and knocked out the ball...