Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Will there be any changes in your Cabinet?" a reporter asked President Eisenhower at his press conference last week. "Not now," said Ike, comfortably aware that he had prevailed on all ten of his tested Cabinet members to stick with him as he starts his second term. An inaugural appraisal of their duties, achievements and deficiencies...
Died. William Philip Simms, 75, longtime (1920-50) sartorially elegant foreign editor for Scripps-Howard newspapers, who began patrolling Europe for the United Press in 1909, frequently while wearing a Homburg, carrying gloves and a stick, campaigned through both world wars and the years between them (too old at 62 to get credentials to cover the Normandy invasion, he bummed his way across the Channel, covered it anyway); in his sleep; in Washington...
...lose interest. I looked at my watch; it was 11:15. I got up to turn Stravinsky over, shuffling my feet loudly as I went. When I got back, her eyes were glazed, but she had gamely propped herself up with her elbows. I decided to try to stick it out until the deadline. I mentioned Samuel Beckett. She quoted Samuel Beckett. Finally we went, but still it was awful. Copley Peale...
Used in competition for the first time last Saturday, the relay team clinched Harvard's victory over Dartmouth. On the basis of these results, McCurdy will stick with his latest idea...
Richards, one of language research's pioneers, is a well-known expert on word derivation. He instituted the use of stick figures in language teaching and is the author of several widely read pocket books, including French Through Pictures...