Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tomorrow, England will have decided whether to follow New Zealand and Australia in turning the Laborites out, or stick with its present government. The result will be watched closely by all nations endeavoring to find the best balancing point between socialism and capitalism...
...William Baziotes, 38, used titles too. His Mummy, a formless fungus floating in green scum, was rich and strange enough to stick in the mind's eye-whether one wanted it there or not. Baziotes' confections of molasses-sweet color and protoplasmic shapes are never planned in advance. "Each painting," he once explained, "comes about in a different way. Some are started with a few touches of color, others with lines. Sometimes nothing happens. I have to give up. But when the urge comes I work swiftly. When I am finished, the painting means something...
...running for the seat his father held until his death in the Eastern Air Lines plane crash over Washington National Airport last November. Candidate Bates, 32, a football star at Brown and a Navy veteran of the Pacific, ran afoul of Navy regulations against politicking and had to stick to his job as ships' service officer, but he had the doorbell-ringing help of women's organizations in the traditionally Republican Sixth. * His Democratic opponent in the Feb. 14 finals: Richard M. Russell, 58, three times mayor of Cambridge...
Skeptics thought that self-improvement would thaw in warmer weather. But optimists remembered the words of Finland's famed writer Aleksis Kivi: "If we once start on the job, we'll stick to it with clenched teeth." In Helsinki's Parliament Building last week, Finns jammed a meeting of the Anti-Obesity Association. President Yrjo Simila had clenched his teeth, dieted from 240 to 180 Ibs., and was feeling like...
Then Gehrmann slowly began to fade. "I felt kind of sick," he said the next day. "In the third quarter the other runners started going by ... I kept telling myself to stick with them and they kept passing me . . ." As the crowd roared at the action on the steep turns and in the short straightaways, Yale's tall George Wade took the lead. John Twomey of the Illinois Athletic Club shouldered past him. With 2½ laps to go and Gehrmann apparently in trouble, Wilt swung ahead of the field...