Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, President Harry Truman pulled out a sheet of his pale green personal stationery and penned a personal letter. A little later, a White House functionary brought in the antiquated equipment necessary for affixing the Presidential Seal. He lit a stick of red sealing wax, allowed some to drip on the envelope and quickly pressed it with a heavy, wrenchlike instrument...
Immediately, Mohammed put the Medinans to work, raiding caravans, converting pagans, blockading Mecca from the north. In 630, Mecca gave in. As the Meccan leaders had foreseen, Mohammed had to conquer all Arabia to make the conversion of Mecca stick. This he did - brilliantly - before his death...
...ride the sky in whatever old craft they could lay their hands on. One of the men was a skilled pilot to begin with, and the others soon caught up. All four worked like Russian Stakhanovites on a plane of their own, scrounging parts and trying to make them stick together...
...Lawyer David Saunders are talking Ike, but a California politician explained: "We're lying in the weeds, waiting for the right opportunity to spring. The politicians' hands are tied by the fact that Earl Warren is still in the running. It's too soon to stick our necks...
...gave him just enough to reach the open sea. He decided to run for it. Luckily the Yangtse was in high water, but, even so, the tortuous, silted channel was a skipper's nightmare-especially without an experienced Chinese pilot. And even if Kerans had the luck to stick to the channel while ducking Communist artillery, there was still a boom of sunken ships to pass, 40 miles downriver...