Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trunks of the high school's lordly oaks. Jeeps moved around to the rear of the school, parked in a line along practice-football charging machines. Pup tents blossomed in back of the school's tennis courts. Colonel William A. Kuhn, smart and salty, swung a swagger stick as he examined a map of the school grounds...
...time Russia was a supporter of Zionism, if only as a stick with which to beat British "colonialism" in Palestine. The Israeli forces could hardly have defeated the Arab armies in the Palestine war without the arms which Soviet-satellite Czechoslovakia sold them. Moscow and Washington tumbled over each other to be the first to recognize the new state the day it proclaimed itself a nation (the U.S. won), and the telegram of congratulations that Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion later sent Stalin on his 70th birthday remains one of the least attractive passages in Israel's diplomacy...
...villagers who wandered the birch-laden slopes near Lake Tuusula in southern Finland were accustomed to seeing the massive old man in his Homburg and precisely tailored business suit walking slowly along the shaded lanes, easing his weight on a heavy stick. Invariably, they saluted him, for they knew that they were in the presence of greatness. His admirers indeed claimed Jean Sibelius as one of the century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard...
Mikoyan has hung on tenaciously beside Driver Khrushchev. Last winter, when some of the old crowd, emboldened by Khrushchev's setbacks in Hungary and the Middle East, sought to confine his reach for top power, Mikoyan's instinct made him stick with Nikita. In June, when even Bulganin and the aged Voroshilov deserted Khrushchev and swelled the Presidium's vote to 7 to 4 against him, Mikoyan backed the party's First Secretary and proved to have followed the right hunch. Within 48 hours Khrushchev, using his party machine in exactly the same fashion as Stalin...
...outdone by Russian high jumpers and their Pogo-stick shoes (TIME, Sept. 9), California's Ernie Shelton got into the act at the University Games in Paris, sported a triangular aluminum cookie cutter on his take-off foot, designed :o give him more "spring action." He inished a low (6 ft. 6 in.) third. Ahead: Russia's Yuri Stepanov (6 ft., 6 in.) and Igor Kashkarov (6 ft. 7 in.), still wearing platform soles...