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Word: sticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the Republican Policy Committee sat down in the Senate Secretary's office and heard the bad news: they were half a dozen votes short of enough to push their bill through; the George amendment would carry. New York's Irving Ives, while he promised to stick with the party, grumbled that the G.O.P. was going to take a licking come November if it did not do something for the "little fellow." A number of other Republicans, especially those up for re-election this year, shared the Ives sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: For the Little Fellow | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...Love (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS) borrows in all directions: from countless quiz shows, from Bride & Groom, from This Is Your Life. Frenetic Bert Parks tries to make all these elements stick together by bringing onstage a devoted couple and then surrounding them with assorted friends and relatives who give the lowdown on the romance and answer quiz questions to help pile up loot for the lovebirds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Imitators | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...DeLong drilling platform looks like an engineer's doodle turned into steel. It is a shallow-draught barge. Running through vertical holes near its sides are eight steel caissons. When the barge is being towed through shallow water, they stick up like lofty smokestacks. At the drilling site they are dropped, poking their ends into the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE OILMEN & THE SEA | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...divorced, and she went back to evangelism and Bible teaching. She was in Tampa, when the Rev. John Turnbull and his wife met her while making preparations for an independent Baptist mission in Haiti. One day Bertha Holdeman sighed: "I wish you had a corner in your suitcase to stick me." A month later the Turnbulls invited her to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Granny & the Voodoo | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Kings & Queens. The good don, on the other hand, does not always stick to the saintly, and is not above stooping occasionally to the Communist notion that the end justifies the means. One day Peppone, to recover from a bad psychological-warfare defeat inflicted by Don Camillo, launches a big "Poker Tournament for the Peace Crusade." Peppone personally wins for the Communists. To neutralize the Red victory, Don Camillo challenges the mayor to an extra poker match, not in the tavern, of course, where it would be improper for a priest to loiter at cards, but across the tavern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Laugh at Communism | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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