Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power to make the charge was the power to make it stick. Did any of these feared and fearing men challenge Malenkov, demand to know what evidence there was to sustain so grave a charge, or rise to Comrade Beria's defense? The subsequent communique said only that the Central Committee had decided to expel Beria from the party as "an enemy of the people...
...Scots were riled; they are proud of windswept Carnoustie, chiefly because of its jagged hillocks, fiendish traps and stubbly greens. One crusty old codger on a shooting stick spoke up for all of Scotland: "Hogan talks a bloody lot about the greens and a bloody lot about his putter; he should put the two together and shut...
...Army's new ten-page Regulation 600-150-10 is systematically put into effect, G.I.s of the future will train, travel and fight in friendly, even inseparable groups of fours. The regulation, conceived in an effort to improve morale by allowing men who become buddies to stick together, instructs officers to begin putting together four-man teams during the early weeks of training. Once picked, the men will team up in the field, sit together in mess halls, bunk in the same barracks space. Theoretically, they will be transferred overseas as a unit and will not be separated...
...avoid the summer heat, come out only at night. So Woodin hunts them at night by jeep. After the sun has set, the monsters like to lie on the pavement, enjoying its lingering warmth. Woodin steps up to the beaded, venomous patient, pins its neck down with a forked stick, and, with practiced skill, slips a specially made, quick-registering clinical thermometer into the beast's rectum...
...Potez 75, a weird-looking antitank craft with a podlike body hanging between twin fuselages. It fires four guided missiles which unreel up to 1,968 yds. of wire in flight. By means of electrical impulses sent through the wire, a man in the cockpit, sitting at a stick similar to the pilot's, guides the missiles...