Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drop planes went in. Paratroopers leaped out to reinforce the garrison. At 2350, air-ground liaison reported: "So far, all goes well. Every stick has hit the drop zone." Luciole lazed on through...
Wherever she elects to work, the average nurse trained in Houston will stick at it for only 15 years. After 40, most will do only private-duty nursing. The chances are seven out of ten that she will get married and sooner or later quit work to mind her children. In Harris County (which includes Houston), only 109 nurses graduated in 1952. While some moved out of town, seven more moved in. But the county lost 111 by retirement, for a net gain of only five, while the number of hospital beds soared from around...
T.W.A. will stick to its faithful Lockheed Super Constellations, but is shelling out an extra $10 million to make its 20 new ships palaces in the sky. T.W.A. passengers already get free champagne with their dinners, and can have full-length berths on nighttime flights. Last week T.W.A. cut the berth charge from...
Certainly his effectiveness seemed at a low point. Even the case of Annie Lee Moss had not been made to stick. Army Clerk Moss, who was suspended from her job because of testimony before McCarthy that an Annie Lee Moss had been a Communist, last week was reinstated pending an Army Loyalty Board review...
Spiders & Guillotines. The famed Holmesian deductive method is also unchanged. In "The Deptford Horror," for example, it is soon clear that Mr. Theobold Wilson is a left-handed man with a Cuban background. "Your [walking] stick is cut from Cuban ebony," says Sherlock, "[and] there is a slight but regular scraping . . . along the left side of the handle, just where the ring finger of a left-handed man would close upon the grip." "Dear me, how simple," chuckles Mr. Wilson, blandly leading Holmes down to the cellar stove in which he keeps two specimens of the Galeodes spider-"the horror...