Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of the Pilgrim Dry Cleaning and Laundry Co., whose 102 city branches were subjected to 20 stickups in 1966 and 33 so far this year. "I can't find people to work in my stores," he complains, "because they're scared someone's going to stick a gun in their bellies." Desperate, Robertson last month contracted with the Clyde Wilson detective agency to supply a posse of private guards toting twelve-gauge shotguns loaded with No. 1 buckshot. Two other dry cleaning-laundry chains bought into the arrangement, and six additional businesses with retail branches requested...
While out on a patrol, Duncan testified, he radioed back to ask what he should do with two captured Viet Cong whose presence interfered with his mission. "Get rid of them," came the answer. The order meant, said Duncan, "to shoot 'em or stick a knife...
Tooth & Nose. Their audience is al most entirely girls. Brothers and boy friends mostly stick to Mad, car magazines and Playboy. So teen publishers tune their message to girls between ten and 18. The leader of the pack is still Seventeen (circ. 1,300,000), but Seventeen is now 23 years old and tends to look ahead to marriage and other grown-up matters. The newer formula includes fashion, fiction, personal and beauty advice and fan articles on teen heroes-mostly recording stars. The blend varies, but all the mags strive to respond to their readers' letters...
...article about plastic surgery, I've been doing even more wishful thinking about a nose job." She was 14. A Las Vegas 13-year-old scrawled: "I wonder where I could get in on the action." Some are just refreshingly silly: "My problem is my big teeth. They stick out like a sore nose." "Enclosed is a picture of me. My friends think I'm ugly -and I'm not sure." "It's Halloween, and I feel like a witch. Can you help...
Still, the Treasury's once vast hoard of the metal shrank by mid-May to a mere 485 million oz. (a quarter of its 1960 size) as the Government was forced to stick to its policy of selling silver at a low-pegged price. For if the price of silver rises above $1.40 per oz., it becomes theoretically profitable to melt silver dimes, quarters and pre-1966 half dollars for their metallic content...