Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjected themselves to their treatments. A woman who complained of stomach pains to Naturopath R. W. Frydenlund in Dallas reported that he looked into her eyes with a magnifying glass, promptly diagnosed her trouble as "having eye muscles too far apart." He gave her a red-and-black-striped stick, told her to stare at it cross-eyed for 15 minutes a day. Charge: $5. In Weslaco, "Patient" Ben Laney told Naturopath F. G. Schaus that he thought he had food poisoning. A machine diagnosed a kidney stone. Schaus massaged Laney's hand, saying that it contained the nerve...
George snapped a carrot-stick in two. "We are the generation of tranquilizers and mushroom clouds, grunion hunters and men's magazines. We are born, we go to college, and then what? In the age of surrealistic art, in the butt-end semantics of Joyce and the discordant lilt of Stravinsky we are somehow yet conservative. We stand marking time, unimpressed, hands skin-deep in mental hip pockets...
...want to bust the strike and break the men who tried it, you can stick with the job and get protected by Mike Quill's union. And the motormen and conductors who want their own union and don't like Quill's way of moving can just keep walking with their Union, because the law says they have no right to walk out on the city...
Pasternak is a poet, and it is not merely such blunt statements of opposition that make his novel stick in the Communist crop. The book attempts a subtle defense of individualism, and of the individual's search for meaning in life. While nursing wounded in a service hospital, the heroine muses: "One needs to believe in essential values, in life's force, in beauty, in truth so that they-and not human authority-may lead you up sure paths...
...Levin played an inspired game. He stopped Crimson forward Lyle Guttu three times when it appeared Guttu had a certain score. On one particular play, Tansey was completely out of the goal and Guttu shot at the open cage. Lying on his stomach, the Terrier goalie desparately threw his stick at it and knocked the puck aside...