Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time was the early 1930s. Dust-parched, drought-wrung, a steady caravan of humans clattered west over U.S. 66. Piled high in antiquated jalopies and steaming trucks were the precious things of their lives: children, a tacky mattress or two, tattered blankets, a stick of old furniture, cooking utensils, a flap of canvas. Behind them, in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, lay the dead land of the drought. Ahead, at the end of the road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were...
...East Germany, he told the hard-lining bosses of those satrapies that they no longer had anything to fear from the Kremlin. "As the saying goes," he told the Czechs, "trust in God and look out for yourself. When you walk among dogs, don't forget to carry a stick. After all, that is what a hound has teeth for, to bite when he feels like...
...West Indies. Its best hope: relaxation of immigration bars by other islands once federation begins working. Adams will be among the top three men in the dominant Federal Labor Party, along with Jamaica's Norman Manley and Trinidad's Eric Williams. But he plans to stick to his local job. "If I went to the federal Parliament," he says, "I would be betraying Barbados...
Headquarters. In Mexico City, José Miguel Belio, arrested with wife Isabel for fishing pesos from a church alms box with a stick dipped in tar, told police: "I am innocent. Isn't money from the alms box given to the poor? Well, we are poor as hell...
...conviction. Juror Earle T. MacHardy, a suburban sugar buyer who had said on selection that his firm's dealings with the Teamsters Union would not affect the impartiality of his verdict, held out adamantly for acquittal. His reason: the U.S. Government had failed to make its circumstantial evidence stick. Though Jimmy was free to go (on $2,500 bond), he was by no means out of the courtroom woods. Ahead lie: 1) outcome of a suit by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, who maintain that Jimmy was illegally chosen president of the union last Oct. 4, 2) disposition...