Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pilots also feel pressure to stick to a timetable. No sensible man will ever take off or land in dangerous weather or in a questionable ship simply to please his passengers or the Civil Aeronautics Board, which issues a critical monthly report on flights that miss schedules. But there are times when the pilot's choice is not so easy, when a reasonable man might stay or go, and pressures may make the ultimate difference in his decision. Whenever possible, most pilots prefer to make landings according to visual (fair weather) flight rules, instead of instrument approaches that take...
...Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, 'Nix, Nix'; I'm gonna stick around till I get my kicks"--Elvis Presley's "Jail House Rock...
...result: only ten pairs could be matched, and most of those were too fuzzy to be used in evidence if a mix-up case ever got to court. Dr. Shepard concludes in Pediatrics that footprint-ing of babies is worthless. To avoid confusion he suggests that hospitals stick to a name band put on the baby's wrist in the delivery room...
...Then the Golden Jet swooped, legs pumping, speed building. For halt an instant, the four Ranger skaters were split, leaving a momentary alley to the goal. Hull never paused, fired a stinging slap shot down the 40-ft. slot. The puck skipped under the goalie's stick, under his right leg-into the nets. Number 51. For nearly ten minutes, hats rained down onto the ice. Bobby picked up one and put it on, then went to the bench and sat acknowledging the din with a toothless smile...
...crisp, she's trim and she mixes a very mean metaphor. "One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, to fish or cut bait, to put up or shut up," she says. She is Ruth M. Adams, 51, dean of Douglass College, the women's division of New Jersey's Rutgers University, and soon she will take a stand at Massachusetts' Wellesley College as successor...