Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid last week, it was the talk of the coffeehouses. It had been twelve years since Spain's most celebrated living philosopher had gone into voluntary exile when Franco came to power. Now, with Franco's permission, he was back lecturing again. He had been told to stick to cultural subjects, but Ortega seemed to have other plans. He had chosen to lecture on Toynbee merely "to loosen up my fingers like a pianist." Toynbee was "a good minor subject, vast enough to be used as a pretext for ... my lifelong tendency toward social and political themes...
When Queen Mary heard that the specialists were advising another physician because of her son's illness (TIME, Dec. 6) it was only natural that she, like Victoria, should rap the ground with her walking stick and back her protege...
...spend more than 300 million dollars on tobacco and intoxicants to be sent to Europe under the Marshall Plan--but not a penny for the "millions of American children now lacking educational opportunities." The NEA is happier this year with the Democratic victory, but it is willing to stick to the kind of legislation Senator Taft proposed in 1948. Taft assured all concerned that the national regime would only pay out according to formula--nothing else...
After trying "more things than you can shake a stick at," Drs. Atlas and Hottle found that tryptophane (an amino acid) and perchloric acid changed the color of a solution if the virus was present. The color deepened from pinkish brown to dark brown according to the quantity of virus present; if there was no virus, the solution stayed clear. The exact strength of the virus can be fixed by using a spectrophotometer, which measures color by comparing it with a standard. The researchers have been able to make as many as 112 tests a day; normally they...
John Barbirolli was the most popular man in Manchester last week, and with reason. A few hours before concert time he had turned down $40,000 a year and one of the most coveted conductorships in Britain-the BBC Symphony-to stick with the Halle at half the salary...