Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waste of Breath. Ever since then, the phrase has been a stick to whack business, whatever the provocation. In the Truman Administration many theorists in Washington charged that the steel companies were administering steel prices too low just to keep out competition that would come in if prices rose to a point attractive to new investment. Now the argument has shifted 180°. The steel companies and others are accused of administering steel prices too high, not reducing them to encourage greater sales and employment...
...crime stories, true stories and a quiz or two. He is lost. I get myself comfortable on the living-room sofa by the fire with a book, and presently I hear the beginning of the idiot commercial and know it has started again. Sometimes I watch too; sometimes I stick to the book. But the professor is faithful-all too often he is faithful. One evening there was an unusual amount of shouting and bawling. When it was over I said...
When the Skipjack is maneuvering under the surface like a sportive whale, she must be handled more like an airplane than a ship. Her pilot, copilot and engineer are strapped tight in airplane-type seats, steering in three dimensions with an aircraftlike "stick." And as Skipjack dives and banks and turns in the dark depths, propelled by her tireless nuclear engine, the rest of the 83-man crew hang on for dear life. Only when the Skipjack comes to the surface does she tend to wallow clumsily like a surfaced whale...
Born. To Janet Blair (real name: Martha Janet Lafferty), 38, actress (Sid Caesar's third TV wife, Eileen in the first ilm version of My Sister Eileen), and STick Mayo, 37, producer: their first child...
...minute mark, the varsity had to survive their only three penalties of the game, called within five minutes. The last was a preposterous call on Crocker Snow for playing with a broken stick only four seconds after he had fractured it in a faceoff and been knocked off his feet. The Crimson held Yale off without a good-shot, and Bud Higginbottom quickly tied the score a 3 to 3 when he took a pass at center ice, turned the defense, and rifled the disk past Forstmann...