Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defenseman Jim Wykoff and forward Hal Marshall gave the Crimson its third goal. Wykoff shot from just inside the blue line, and since Marshall's stick deflected the shot, Marshall got credit for the goal and Wykoff, the assist...
...fans, eager for more of the blast and blare of Memphis Blues and Black and Blue, peered through the haze of a nightclub called Tiffany's one night last week at a sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts consider...
...woods are full of onetime baseball managers who have had their professional heads chopped off for finishing worse than first. Yet, for every head that falls, there are always plenty of new candidates willing to stick their own necks out. Last week two of them did so with every sign of willingness. A third, fresh from a grisly experience of his own, kept his collar buttoned tight...
...administration, Holcombe also pointed out, has tried unsuccessfully to adopt Theodore Roosevelt's policy of speaking softly and carrying a big stick. He said that Acheson now has the big stick, but fails to speak softly. This makes the purpose of a cold war, i.e. negotiations, impossible, according to Holcombe...
...little to improve its bargaining position and have already caused considerable damage. President Truman's offhand comment on the atomic bomb put our European allies in a terrible fright, while MacArthur's communiques have compromised Western unity. It will take us a while yet to develop our "big stick"; the least we can do in the meantime is to walk more softly...