Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Highest Compliment. The members of the office staff who stick around long enough to get to know him swear by Adams. Says Alice Smith, a former secretary on his White House staff: "The work he does! A few times people in Washington asked me where I worked, and when I told them they would look at me with a squint and say, 'Oh, you work for him?' And I would say, 'Yes, I do, and he's the finest boss in Washington...
...planned, Bill grew up to be a southpaw. But baseball was forgotten when the family moved to Oakland, Calif. Like any other youngster. Bill tried to imitate his older brother, who was a flashy, high-school basketball player. On the court Bill was ambidextrous, but he was mostly Pogo-stick legs and gawky elbows, too awkward to make the regular team until his senior year...
Bill was no ace on offense, but he was good enough. His teammates would purposely fire flat, fast shots that should have bounced off the backboard for sure misses, then Bill would move over, stick his big paw up like a second backboard, and tap the rebound in. The technique was so exasperating that rival coaches wrote a new "Russell rule" into the game-they widened the free-throw lane to 12 ft. so that Bill would have to stay farther out of basket-hanging range...
...marshal laughed and thought no more about it, until-At this point in The Night My Number Came Up, a singularly unnerving picture based on a peculiar incident that actually happened in the Far East, the moviegoer suddenly feels like a man who has reached for his walking stick and grasped instead the tail of a tiger. He dare not let go, but oh, how he hates to hang...
...penny-pinching portrait of Shaw guarding his royalties as if he were a branch Bank of England. Golding Bright died in 1941, after some years of renown as a silver-haired dandy who showed up at London first nights in a swirling black cape, with a gold-knobbed stick, and regularly dozed through the play. Nonetheless, he could give uncannily accurate estimates of how long a play would run, suggesting that at least some of Shaw's precepts had stayed with him even in his sleep...