Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take advantage of the South's rising supply of available timber, but it is a new technology that makes the move possible. New glues and dryers developed by the industry have overcome Southern pine's high moisture and pitch content, which made its wood difficult to stick together. Automated loaders and lathes can now handle pine logs, which are much smaller than fir, and peel off layers of veneer...
...CRIMSON, photographers have the best opportunity for their works to be seen by a college audience, but they usually stick close to the photo-journalism dictated by the news page. Despite finding inferior reproduction of their work on newsprint and being low men on the editorial totem poll, photographers seem satisfied with being on hand for big news events and being tapped by national media for prints...
...cafe proprietor, an idealization of the self-willed outcast, who is sometimes pressed into exerting an ordering influence on his hopelessly muddled environment. A former freedom fighter in Spain and Ethiopia, for some reason unable to return to his native United States, Blaine has become wary of involvement--"I stick my neck out for nobody"--and is resigned to die in Casablanca - "It's a good place...
...Atoms. Since argon is an inert gas, its ions do not stick. But when Mattox heats the anode, the plating material begins to evaporate. Its own ions jump the gap and stick fast to the perfectly clean substrate. The coating that results adheres as strongly as if it were part of the underlying metal...
...method has a great future in space-age construction that calls for the coating of such exotic metals as molybdenum and uranium that other plating systems cannot handle. The Mattox method can even plate the brittle ceramic parts essential to giant modern missiles and miniaturized computers-giving them such stick-tight coatings that they can be handled like metal components and joined together by brazing or soldering...