Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never smoked. The one chink in Stagg's Spartan do-without-it armor is candy. He has always kept sourballs or similar hard candies on his dining table, has also allowed himself the smallest of indulgences in the smallest of ways: he cuts a stick of gum into three or four smidgens, chews one minuscule fragment at a time...
...four years she has been working with Impresario Granz, Ella has tripled her income (to $300,000 a year) and moved out of the jazz cellars into such brassy clubs as Manhattan's Copacabana. Does that mean she plans to stick entirely to pop songs? Not at all, says Ella. "I sing like I feel. Sometimes some of the fellas say, 'What's the matter, Ella, you goin' square?' And I tell them, 'I'm not goin' square, I'm going versatile...
...last U.S. nuclear-weapons test series. On Oct. 31 Britain and the U.S. have promised to join the Russians in their suspension of nuclear-weapons tests for one year, provided that the Russians show up for a political conference on nuclear-blast detection (TIME, Sept. 1). Will Russia stick to its own moratorium, declared after a heavy bomb-test series last March? Cried Moscow Radio last week: "If Britain and the U.S.A. continue to perfect nuclear weapons by means of test explosions, the Soviet Union also probably will be forced in the final analysis to resume tests...
...another, good business or bad, the real carnies always stick with their show. There is nowhere else to go. When a man's show folds, he will be back next season, owner of one ride, maybe, or a hanky-pank, but working for a stake that will let him open his own again. And each year it is getting harder...
...pencil-thin (6 ft., 140 Ibs.) Charlie Coe, 34, the whole week had been painfully tiring. Trudging over the tough, 6,680-yd. Lake Course at San Francisco's Olympic Club, the Oklahoma oil broker rested on a shooting stick between each stroke, burying his face in his hands and moodily wondering how to get his drives out of the rough and his putts into the hole. Still, the 1949 Amateur champ and veteran Walker Cupper somehow got through each round, finally defeated Ohio Blanket Salesman Roger McManus 3 and 2 on the 34th hole to make...