Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followers actually considered the lack of roads a defense weapon. Turkish defense thinking prior to 1947 was sometimes described as the "Gallipoli mind." Widely separate cadres of troops were assigned to defend mountain passes and strategic positions. They had their orders-plant the flag on the hilltop and stick until every man died. If there were no roads, the thinking ran, then the enemy would have a harder time moving than the defenders would have defending. The new military equipment and tactical conception the U.S. brought to Turkey in 1947 demanded that the Gallipoli approach be changed, that the Turkish...
...Crimson, which used the T last week for the first-time this year in a 35 to 0 drubbing by Columbia, will stick largely to its basic single wing offense, Jordan said tonight. He explained that the squad has not worked together long enough on the T to make it an effeffctive weapon against a team of Cornell's caliber...
...hide boners, bottle up many an important (though militarily harmless) story that should be told. What, asked one newsman, would happen if a bureaucrat refused to release information which obviously had no connection with the nation's safety? Replied Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Short: "I dont want to stick my neck out-but, come to me." But with 1,500 reporters in Washington, that was hardly a solution...
Captain McCarthy, when informed of Sullivan's action, stated that he will stick by his two week parking grant to University students. He clarified his statement, however, by saying that his men will tag overnight parkers in boarding house and residential areas. "The moritorium applies only to the immediate dormitory and House Vicinity and not to places like Trowbridge Street. There will be no police get-tough policy without the student body being adequately warned through the CRIMSON," the Captain added...
...Women's Cards. In the end, dumpy Muriel Goodwin runs her hero husband just as she has run him since high-school days. And, up in Connecticut, Mrs. Skelton wins too: Sid decides to stick at his job to make his wife and daughter happy. In marriage, Novelist Marquand seems to be saying a little petulantly, the women hold all the cards...