Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank Lorenzo took over the control stick at Eastern Air Lines last week, some embittered employees of the carrier wanted to make sure that he felt turbulence on his mission to assemble the largest U.S. airline company. At Eastern's final shareholders meeting, 200 employees turned the session into a shouting match as they accused the carrier's managers of "giving away the company" to Lorenzo's corporation, Texas Air. Eastern workers, who own 20% of the airline's stock, pleaded with management to consider their rival buyout plan, insisting that they could pay $11.25 a share to top Texas...
Wanda: Don't blame them, Ralph. Couples want these agreements. In fact, it's the stick-in-the-mud lawyers and family counselors who don't really approve. Robert Herman, an attorney in Rochester, calls life-style clauses "an awful waste of money," and Don Smith, a California counselor, says, "It goes from the frivolous to the ridiculous." He says he has helped couples negotiate "everything from who's going to pick up the doggie poo to the usual stuff on feeding the kids and doing the dishes...
...favorite hobbies -- watching TV and resting. You will owe me money if you ever criticize Joe DiMaggio, serve sodium-free potato chips, or bring into this house any book written by a sea gull or Leo Buscaglia. Outside of that, I'm easy. Of course, if I stick flamingos in the front yard, defend secondhand smoke or say something coarse about the snail darter, I'll pay you. I will agree never to go bald. And naturally, I expect you to remain wrinkle free and wasp waisted until further notice from an impartial panel made up of myself, Bert Parks...
...they must have boiled it wrong this time, because what the Times really said was it cost $27,600 for the hotel rooms, with the rest of it for food. I decided to stick with the $37,000 figure, since from what I hear it is very hard to get the President to change an anecdote once he gets it down...
...Buddha on your path, kill him--if he gets on your way. Because if you get confused and get attached to the idea of it, cut it off, cut it down. Unlike the Moral Majority which would never cut down, never say their Christ is a stick of shit like Buddhists say Buddha is a stick of shit...