Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate and professional schools (i.e., candidates for degrees in liberal arts as well as students in medicine, dentistry, optometry, law, etc.) who stick to their courses and keep up their grades...
With time running out in the final period Dudley used a four-man line, leaving back one defenseman. Bronfman, an excellent skater and stick-handler, took advantage of this by getting around the defense on a solo rush and scoring unassisted...
This was the carrot technique; bondholders would be modestly rewarded for holding on to Government securities. Was there a hidden stick? No one could tell until the terms and details of the new issue were announced. Nor did the +¼% sign which Treasury and FRB waved as a symbol of peace represent a final settlement of the differences between them...
...Chinese threatened them; others were friendly. "One officer came and talked to us," said the corporal. "He said he liked American food and American ways better than any other kind in the world. He let me roll a cigarette with Chinese tobacco, and lit it with a stick from a fire. Then he said, "Just like home...
...communicate spiritually with deaf-mutes takes sympathy as well as sign talk. Says Pastor Bartel: "It took me seven years to be able to speak to them fluently and understand them. The fact that they are frequently misunderstood makes them stick to their own kind . . . It takes patience, very much patience, to win the confidence of such people...