Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form of blondes. Last week, pursuit of a blonde landed him in a Los Angeles hospital with a brain concussion, a broken nose, and a fractured cheekbone. Against doctor's orders, the blonde climbed a fire escape, spent two hours with Tone, then announced that she would stick by him. From what newspaper readers had learned of the blonde during the preceding 24 hours, this would seem to be a fate somewhat worse than a brain concussion and a broken nose...
...wasted." Beteta was particularly successful in cutting down income-tax evasion. He promised his countrymen absolution from past sins if they would pay up present taxes; then he got a law passed threatening them with jail if they did not go straight in the future. The carrot-and-stick technique worked fine, but Beteta is still not satisfied. "We have not caught up with the U.S.," he sighed. "There, you may not be able to put a gangster in jail for murder, but you can always get him for tax evasion. For a finance minister, that is the perfect state...
...Washington, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson had a hearty greeting for a new lawyer: his son, Fred Jr. A graduate of Washington and Lee University, he had just passed the District of Columbia bar exams and was ready to hang out his shingle. His mother hoped that he would stick to private practice. Said Mrs. Vinson: "He was considering going into Government for experience, but I hope he won't. I've had enough of Government service in our family...
Bridgeman pulled back on the stick until the fuselage angle pointed up about 50°. He watched his altimeter, accelerometer, air-speed indicator, his cabin temperature and rocket pressure gauges. His world had contracted to the artificial world of the instruments. He was climbing at more than 1,000 m.p.h., and burning fuel at the rate of a ton a minute...
...particular, the British seemed to think the Philharmonic ought to leave the classics to others and stick to the 20th Century...