Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane trip four years ago, a seatmate told John Burton Tigrett about a new toy. It was simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual...
Delicate Operator. In Milwaukee, when Patrolman William Klippel slipped up behind a burglar and murmured "stick 'em up," the burglar gasped and fainted...
...follow the Gleam.' "* Then Truman, who seldom misses a chance to upbraid the press, got in a typical dig: "We do have . . . some publications which do not care very much for the truth ... I hope that if any of you become editors of great publications . . . you will stick strictly to the truth and nothing but the truth...
Right now, it seems certain that no University in this area is going to stick its neck out and build a television station all by itself. But almost all have approved of the Council's actions so far, and have indicated they'll donate in the future. Though its officials aren't talking, it seems safe to predict that the actual station on Massachusetts' Channel 2 will be run by the Lowell group...
...Reported A. A. Suppan, philosophy professor at Wisconsin State Teachers College in Milwaukee, after a round table on the subject: "Many of the students say, 'We need some certainty.' They point out that the Dewey criterion for good-'Will it work?'-can be a measuring stick for totalitarians...