Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Industry knows that it would have a hard job making a price rise stick this year, therefore has stiffened its back to any wage hike that would force one. Washington gossiped that Dave McDonald has already been told privately just what he can get at the bargaining table: a package wage hike in the area of 8?-10? an hour. Some steel officials, though they insist publicly they would have to pass any wage boosts along in prices, privately admit that they could give the union a modest package without a price hike...
...Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick him with . . . dud Smelly River Ordinaries"*-and, of course, there are the usual Wodehousian references to or quotations from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Lord Tennyson and Publishers Knopf, Holt, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster-all balled up together...
...down the shore barking. The swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...
Both teams played one of their sloppiest games of the season. The Crimson defense, for instance, failed on 13 of its 24 attempted clears. And when Tech attacks were handed free shots at the goal, they usually couldn't stick-handle well enough to score...
Landau came back to defeat Roesler in the low hurdles, but it was left for Gordon to climax the meet. After a succession of good Army legs and poor Crimson stick passes had given the Cadets what looked like a secure 12-yard lead, Gordon overhauled Grant Schaefer in another stirring finish for the Crimson's final five points...