Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With half a mile to go in the mile-and-a-quarter race, the mahogany-colored stallion took the lead. Under Jockey Steve Brooks's gentle urging ("I waved the stick at him to shake him up a little"), Citation lengthened his stride and drew away from the field. He won by a breezing four lengths, thanks, in part, to a break in the weights which made Citation carry only 120 Ibs. while third-place Be Fleet toted 122. It was like the old days. But this victory, Big Cy's 32nd in 45 starts, was something special...
...world organization in the defense of human freedom . . . Victory may be in your hands, but you are winning a greater thing than military victory, for you are vindicating the idea of freedom under international law." But then he got to his main point, that the U.S. must "stick to a hard, tough policy of self-denial and self-control . . . The greatest threat to world peace, the tremendous armed power of the Soviet Union, will still remain, even if the Korean fighting stops . . . We face a long period of world tension...
...Unlike some temperamental dowsers who use only hazel sticks, Henry says he can work with any kind of forked stick, with grass, wire, or even old corset stays...
...Agreement that both sides would stick to their demilitarized zones, and that their ships would stay at least three miles off each other's coasts...
Some of his entries are almost hiccuping with raw poetry. In Bryce Canyon he saw: "A million wind-blown pinnacles of salmon pink and fiery white all fused together like stick candy-all suggestive of a child's fantasy of heaven . . ." In Salt Lake City he let loose a hot blast at Mormonism: "The harsh ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside...