Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight before Fieldsend's trial date, Bertie Holliday registered at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Virginia Water, Surrey, asked to be called at 9 o'clock next morning. When a maid tried to waken him, she found him dead; he had shot himself with a pistol-walking stick. Detectives checked the suicide, found that they had their jewel thief; Fieldsend was Holliday, and Barry had killed Bertie...
...time of Hiroshima's agony he had found a new work. One day he noticed five small schoolchildren, dressed in rags and sitting on boxes in the midst of the rubble. In front of them, their teacher was drawing kana characters (syllable symbols) with a charcoal stick on a piece of slate. The sight changed Matsui's plans instantly. "Kore da!" he said to himself. "This is it!" Hiroshima's children needed books: he would print them...
...Sticks & Screams. Her three children-Michael, 18, May, 14, and Sandra, 3-followed her through the yard. After she had stepped into the practice arena, with a chair in one hand and a short stick in the other, Michael climbed up the bars on the outside, unhooked the sliding door between the arena and the small lion cage...