Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly all their variants, the young possess points of poignant common interest. From activists to acidheads, they like to deride their elders as "stick-walkers" and "sellouts." Fond of such terms as "fragmentation" and "anomie" in sketching their melodramatic self-portraits, many of them assume an attitude that borders on nihilism. To the standard adult charge of youthful irresponsibility, a young Californian can reply, as Authors J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd show in It's Happening, with the emotional outrage of a John Osborne character...
...team, picks his players as much for the hang of their jaws as the strength of their forearms and wrists. At least it looked that way last week, when Hopman and his prognathous protégés posed proudly with a sterling-silver heirloom. And why not stick out their chins? The Aussies have been inviting the world to come fight for the Davis Cup every year. But hardly anyone makes much of a scrap...
...Dave Ferguson's shot from a melee of broken sticks, referees, and players 45 feet out deflected off a Harvard stick into the goal's lower left corner. Ninety seconds later, with Harvard's Chip Otness in the penalty box, Bob Kinasewich bounced a shot perpendicularly off a Crimson defenseman's pads into the nets...
...recorded 34 saves, to Dryden's 31. Fifteen penalties were called, and the eight on Cornell included two majors. A free-for-all almost erupted with five minutes left in the game when Doug Ferguson, with two infractions already to his debit, went after Garrity's head with his stick. Two more penalties in the next minute left each team with three skaters...
...tragedy, Medea is abandoned by her lover, Jason, who takes up with Glauce, daughter of King Creon of Corinth; in retribution, Medea kills her two children by Jason, and murders both Glauce and Creon. Magnani's view was that Medea had got the short end of the stick, that Jason was a no-good porco. Menotti did not quite see it that way. "Jason's story is like every Italian man's," he explained. "He is just a tired man who wants to get rid of his mistress and settle down...