Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Making the charges stick, however, was not so easy. The 36-year-old physicist looked worried when his trial began, but as it wore on in a Washington federal court last week, his spirits rose. The Government dropped one charge against him, the court threw out another. Only the first count remained at the trial's conclusion...
While in Juarez, Mexico in 1909, Marin met famed Rebel Leader Pancho Villa, who asked him to help run his revolution. Martin worked for Villa for seven years, taught the illiterate rebel how to write his name in the sand with a stick, and became so close to him that Villa called him "My Boy (one of the three English phrases he knew). In 1916, when Mexican government forces were closing in on their stronghold, Martin escaped, taking Villa's wife and children to New Orleans, thence to safety in Cuba...
Politically he is active on behalf of every Democrat but himself. A member of the Executive Board of the Massachusetts ADA, and chairman of its Political Action Committee, he firmly declares himself not eligible for office. He wants to stick with teaching...
...hospital with his puffed-up hand in a sling, his left hand proudly brandishing a letter from his captain recommending his promotion to staff sergeant. "This time," he said, without too much confidence in his voice, "I'm going to make it stick. After all, I retire in two years...
...referees awarded Dan Rufkin Yale's fourth penalty of the night at 15:48. Outraged, Lufkin heaved his stick in the air, but was seated in the box anyway. Hubbard slammed in Harvard's fourth goal one minute and 36 seconds later...