Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business. The company sold its 962,000-sq. ft. Evansville, Ind. refrigerator plant for $19 million to fast-growing Whirlpool-Seeger Corp. (which is backed by RCA and Sears, Roebuck), announced that henceforth it would stick to its $1 billion-a-year farm-equipment business...
...Young Men. Duggan brilliantly sets the scene: the turmoil of 12th century England, in which Norman rule was still insecure. Since the conquerors felt they must stick together, it was possible for an ambitious young Norman lad, though only the son of a Cheapside burgess, to get a helping hand from Norman nobles. Young Thomas managed to acquire both a knight's training and a lawyer's education, a combination which, while he was still in his 30s, had drawn him to the attention of England's brand-new young Norman King, Henry II. Redhaired, red-tempered...
...unbait the "two Germanys" trap, Adenauer dispatched Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano to Washington this week with the urgent appeal that Western powers stick to their insistence on German reunification...
...first, he gives me the big pinch-hit with 16 home runs in his first 32 hits [of his three first basemen. Casey is now talking about Ed Robinson]. So they say he won't be an outfielder [now, Joe Collins], but I'm not afraid to stick him in the outfield in the '53 series, and phew! What do they say in Brooklyn about me using a first baseman in the outfield? But he does me a good...
Sweet Sorrow. In Blackpool, England, Brian Winter was fined ?5 ($14) after he got into an argument with Gas Station Owner Ernest Wicks, slugged him on the head with a souvenir he had bought at a nearby shop-a stick of candy a yard long and four inches thick...