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Word: sticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the score that interested him most: an $860,000 gross. Then he added up a secondary score: he had beaten Australia's Frank Sedgman 54 matches to 41, and had paid Sedgman more than $125,000 for taking the lumps. For this season, Player Kramer decided to stick to being Promoter Kramer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Tennis Tour | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...heartwarming though crudely repetitive story of a passionate idealist whose passion is medicine. No novel ever written has contained more authentic, hard-won facts about doctors, patients, hospitals. Hypochondriacs will devour it; few of those who are not will consider its nearly 1,000 pages a waste if they stick it out. With all its literary embarrassments, Not as a Stranger speaks up for life as few recent literary successes have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Ode to Hippocrates | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Play picked up in the final period, but the only score resulted from a deflection off Joe Crohore's stick into the Crimson goal. Murphy, who had passed the puck in front of the cage, got credit for the tally...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Sextet Edges Poor B. U. Team, 3-2 | 1/12/1954 | See Source »

...must come from him. This fact is no reflection upon Senator Knowland, Vice President Nixon, House Speaker Joe Martin and their lieutenants. For a generation, no congressional figure of either party has been able to exercise congressional leadership in the old sense. Martin, Knowland & Co. have no carrot, no stick-except as the President, by arousing public interest in his program, can provide them with carrots and sticks. Significantly, President Eisenhower began the political year 1954 by going to the people with a preview of his program (see above). If he succeeds in arousing and maintaining public interest, Congressmen, aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Pressure Makes Arithmetic | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...original Civil Service Act was passed as a result of bipartisan disgust with the expense and inefficiency of the post-Civil War spoils system. The nation should not have to suffer again before it decides to make these reforms stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Victor | 1/5/1954 | See Source »

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