Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home. In fact, dozens of members had already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around and help clear up the snarl of bills still wedged tight in conference committee. Then, Senators began arguing among themselves about responsibility for their own delays...
...money to lure U.S. big-leaguers into his Mexican Baseball League, and he was making the biggest eyes of all at the Cardinals. With the clink of gold, he signed up three of themf and he had the Adam's apple of a fourth bobbing like a pogo stick. The fourth man was Stan Musial...
Getting Rough. Last week Hathorn told all, and seemed to enjoy doing it. "We Democrats," Hathorn quoted Vaughan as saying, "have to stick together." When this did not win over Hathorn, Vaughan went further, confidentially confessed an amusing little indiscretion of his own. He had told Allied's president that molasses rationing was soon to end. The president, one Harold M. Ross, forthwith bought 500,000 gallons. But the general had been wrong: rationing didn't end at all and Ross was badly stuck. This, Vaughan said significantly, "could prove very embarrassing to me here at the White...
Langs thought up the stick-on bra when his wife complained that she could not get an even tan in a bathing suit. Last May, after lengthy experiments, he put the adhesive cups on sale. He expected the bra to be just a sideline to his business of chrome-plating grilles for autos, and hired two girls to fill orders in the basement of his home. The orders poured in so fast that he had to hire 43 more employees, rent the entire floor of a warehouse. Many orders remained unfilled for weeks...
...Cardinal Spellman should stick to prayer and forget politics...