Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlong out of Carey's (see cut) was a case in point: the artist had given new zest to an already hackneyed theme by putting it in brutally simple terms and by contrasting the plight of the flailing drunk with that of his nerveless, serenely floating hat and stick. The artist was found dead in a Manhattan doorway in 1933; his art still hangs serene...
Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of YPH, predicated that his group would go along with the Progressive Party and not with Wallace. "As for myself," he said, "I can't stick with Wallace's idea of my-country-right-or-wrong...
...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
Said Manring: "They come up and stick their burp guns in our stomachs with one hand and with the other they reached out like to shake hands, but they grabbed our rifles. One jerked on mine and I jerked back. Then he jerked again. I said to myself, 'This ain't no time to argue,' and let go. They stripped us down and took our helmets. They took my watch and billfold that had $11.81 in it. My girl's picture was in it, too. They took that out and looked at it and kept...
...joint authors of the Mr. & Mrs. North whodunits, are of a mind with Mark Twain. But in their new book, which covers Felis domestica from tail to whiskers and traces feline history from ancient Egypt to the present day, they sadly admit that vast numbers of people cannot stick cats at any price. Ailurophobia (fear of cats) may in certain cases be so intense that the mere suggestion of a cat's presence may cause the sufferer, in the words of a scientific observer, to respond with "fear, terror, disgust . . . chilly sensations, horripilation [goose flesh], weakness, locked jaws...