Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consider Oppenheim's resignation valid. He is still President as far as we're concerned," Burke said. "We are going to bring these charges against him and you can be sure they'll stick...
After the 17th revision on a six-year-old playscript, bestselling Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) decided that she would stick to novels: "I am absolutely through with playwriting . . . through with being the vehicle for producers' inarticulate creative writing urges . . ." Producing a novel is "not as glamorous as the theater," but it has a certain "dignity...
This week the Count was buried in the Bernadotte family plot. On Bernadotte's coffin rested the Count's Red Cross cap, his Boy Scout stick, and a single white carnation. A Y.M.C.A. choir sang Bernadotte's favorite spirituals, Deep River and Steal Away to Jesus. The Lutheran pastor who delivered the funeral oration took for his text Isaiah 6: 8: "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send...
...When Old Friends Meet." The Nationalists had lost more than a city of 600,000. Before the fall of Tsinan, Communist tactics had been to stick to the countryside; now they were ready to accept responsibility for one of China's richest provinces...
...Detroit, Indianapolis, Galesburg, Ill., alarmed parents were getting the law after the bad books. So far, newspapers have been slow to take the stick to their own offspring...