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Word: sticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard officials are too thoroughly frightened to stick their necks out and take a stand," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YP Demands Abolition Of NROTC Loyalty Oath | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Islands with a host of hearty swashbucklers and infamous trollops, both professional and amateur. But sometimes they become so involved that even Graves is obliged to pause and scratch his head. Not for long. When this happens, he merely makes his narrator say: "Here my cart begins to stick ... so clogged . . . that I shall have a troublesome task to drive the wheels ... by heaving and hauling at the spokes." At this, of course, the friendly reader unconsciously puts his own shoulder to Author Graves's mired wheel-and before you can say "White Goddess" the lusty, likable potboiler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Pot | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Hope. Phil Murray traveled the grimy U.S. Steel belt, trying to bolster the morale of his striking followers, vowing to stick to his demand for 10?-an-hour pensions and insurance financed solely by the industry. Federal Mediator Cyrus S. Ching spent a futile week in Washington and New York City talking with steel-industry leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Squeeze | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...that the team's timing has been improved and certain key men have recovered from injuries, Art Valpey's plan was to stick to the ground and give his men a chance to "bite." This means that linemen charge their men with extra drive, that backs hit the line a little harder, that everybody gets bumped up a little...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Beat Crusaders On Ground Plays | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...German people, more anti-dictatorial than pro-democratic, will stick with us, he said if we maintain a positive policy in Germany. He called for rigid enforcement of disarmament and indefinite continuation of our occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Germany Safe, Friedrich Says | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

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