Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown Field, near San Diego, Convair's XFY-I "Pogo Stick" last week showed what it could do in free flight. Already dress-rehearsed in a blimp hangar (TIME, June 14), the plane now fully lived up to its billing as the Navy's first vertical-take-off fighter...
...were acquainted with many useful compounds and reactions, but they had no rational theories about them. Early chemists, dropping the magic, gradually developed general principles to explain what happened in their test tubes. The most useful of these was the concept of "chemical bonds": the forces that make atoms stick together as the molecules that form nearly everything on earth. Though the chemists learned a lot about the bonding forces and took skillful advantage of them, they did not understand their origin...
...field. Commentator Charles Collingwood, who nursemaided the mechanical brain both in 1952 and last week, says: "Suddenly Univac said the Republicans were winning the House. We didn't know what to do. Should we change the machine? After all, last time the experts were wrong. I decided to stick with the machine." This particular error turned out to be caused by human frailty: a teletype operator had transposed the Democratic and Republican figures...
...market by Frito of New York, Inc. and the Lay Potato Chip Co., Atlanta. Price: 29? for a 3½-oz. package. For quick snacks, George A. Hormel & Co. has put on sale precooked pieces of ham wrapped in egg and breadcrumb mix and fastened on a stick. Price: 59? for a box of eight...
...banners. But, as usual, Duggan has a thorough grasp of the political and social hanky-panky of his period. The publisher offers unsatisfied buyers of the book any substitute title they may pick off the current bestseller list, but current bestsellers being what they are, readers might as well stick with Duggan...