Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably in the fields of science and business that American patience is most familiar. The folk hero of American tinkerers remains Thomas A. Edison, who prescribed "stick-to-itiveness" as one of the prime requisites for achievement. More sophisticated researchers have kept alive the tradition of the patient scientist. Luther Burbank spent 16 years developing an edible cactus for cattle, and during his experiments, by his own estimate, had a million spines painfully pierce his skin. Dr. Selman A. Waksman and his researchers spent four years analyzing 100,000 soil microorganisms before isolating streptomycin. Today, the legendary, lonely experimenter...
...Club as requested? Would the network archenemies of ABC-TV's Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel by wearing puce powder-blue tights? Gleeps! Henry decided to stay out of the women's club show. From now on he'll stick close to his cave...
...Scott electronically checked the Agena's complex systems. Assured that all was in order, they nudged to within five feet of the Agena's nose, close enough for them to read a small, lighted instrument panel over the target craft's docking cone. Using his maneuvering stick, Armstrong fired a brief burst from two of Gemini's 100-lb. thrusters. The gap between Agena and the spacecraft closed at about six inches per second, until the craft gently bumped its nose into the docking cone...
...Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said 'Nix, Nix,' I'm gonna stick around till I get my kicks...
...House is about 20 paces away from the IAB, but by any other yard-stick it is about as far from a gymnasium as Adams House. Its athletes, like its debaters, just happen to be a little better than most. There are a lot of Whizzer White types in Winthrop--hardly any Big Daddy Lipscombs...