Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Audience has more to offer when its column-tenants stick to their own experience. The poetry is generally original, in the spirit of experiment. Arthur Freeman metaphorizes Samuel Johnson's sensitive mind into a trailer-truck, a diesel, and a Pershing tank, in what is probably the volume's best poem. And Nathaniel Lamar's short verse on "A Dry Anthropologist at Sea" sent Lowell House contemporary culturists to chuckling in their...
...much money at first, especially the band men; the only musicians that made real money was the piano players; the other fellers lot o' times they'd work for a dollar a night-maybe a funeral procession would be two dollars-two dollars and a half-'cause New Orleans stick close to the scripture: that means 'rejoice unto death' and 'cry unto birth.' But you can't go counting on folks dying off too quick...
...Canal. "More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts, then withdrew...
...None of the girls. Dr. Greenwald found, had much sense of reality. Even those with creative ability had such a short attention span that they could not stick at their avocations; the rest had difficulty watching a TV program through, or reading for more than a few minutes...
...solution that satisfied everybody was to borrow the United Arab Republic's formula that international agreements signed by either Egypt or Syria would remain binding on whichever country had signed them. Under this formula, Iraq could stick by its Baghdad Pact commitment until August 1959, when the treaty provides that all members may reconsider their membership...