Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making the best of a bad leave on the eleven with a thin-cut one-rail shot to the corner. Cracked the preacher, who had hustled in from a civil rights walking tour of the city for the game: "I'm just shooting my best stick." No masse demonstrations, please...
...first period was scoreless, thanks mainly to the goaltending of Fitzsimmons and Brown's Dave Ferguson. The Crimson, spent most of the time in its own ice and successfully killed thre penalties, with Parrot's time-consuming stick handling prompting the biggest cheer of the period...
...Street broker, the President of the U.S. each year draws up a federal budget-essentially a forecast of events as they are expected to occur as much as 18 months hence. The law requires him to perform this task, but there is no law that says he has to stick to his budget. This extraordinary leverage over the public purse has been gradually wrested from Congress, which over the years has ceded its once jealously held fiscal powers to the White House. Today, the President does not consider the budget just a report on spending or an accounting...
...else fails, the irate skier has no choice but to play "Head them off at the pass." When a vacationer at Treasure Mountain Resort, Utah, discovered that his skis had been swiped while he was buying a Chap Stick, he hopped into his car, took a short cut to the spot where the ski road meets the highway. As each car stopped for the traffic, he counted the number of skis on top, paired them off with the passengers until he found a car with one too many pair of skis. He was back on the slopes for a final...
...first glance, Silence seems to be criticizing Communism without restraint. The villain is an ambitious young member who brings false charges of "deceiving the Party" against a public-spirited young Communist. The charges stick, the hero is expelled from the party, the villain moves on to bigger and better betrayals-and nobody smells a rat in the apparat...