Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentences had been handed out, including at least six death sentences and six of life imprisonment. The Red bosses began a complete screening of the 5,000,000 member East German trade unions and of the East German Communist Party (1,230,000 members). Along with the bigger stick, there were some carrots. Some food prices were lowered, and some of the lowest pay scales (e.g., of coal miners) were raised...
...institutions are perfect, that Americans are invariably well behaved, or that the American way of life is flawless. It only means that in one of the most terrible conflicts in human history, I have chosen my side, as all will have to choose sooner or later, and propose to stick by the side I have chosen through thick & thin, hoping to have sufficient courage hot to lose heart, sufficient sense not to allow myself to be confused or deflected from this purpose, and sufficient faith in the civilization to which I belong, and in the religion on which that civilization...
...there and there was nothing we could do. He then told us to use the Morse Code and tap it out on the bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer out SOS with a wrench and a wooden stick. "Then he said, 'Let us pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never mentioned his pain once." After half an hour, rescue workers heard the tapped-out SOS and groped their way to the trapped men. The heroic officer, Lieut. Leonard M. De Rose...
...Friday--a 'back to the team' rally. Let it be held at the scene of the celebrations for Princeton's greatest triumphs, her Big Three victories . . . Let's burn the Bear of Cornell at a big bonfier Friday night in front of Clio Hall, to show that we shall stick by Charlie Caldwell and the team as faithfully as we did during the undefeated years. It was no mean coach that was voted 'Coach of the Year' in 1951. Let us not be fair-weather fans...
...three seniors, whose Yard milk and doughnuts concession was recently merged with the House agency, said that they had made an agreement with Student Employment last winter and would stick by it. Their conclusions on Employment policy were "retrospective opinions, not gripes," Goodman said...