Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago days: "We never had to look at each other when we played, both just thinkin' the same thing. And he's the one that stopped me playin' all those variations-what they call bebop today. 'You get yourself a lead [melody] and you stick to it,' Papa Joe told me. And I always do." It was the kind of jazz that didn't take written arrangements, if a man had "a lead" and could "cut loose from the heart...
...early operas such emasculated male soprano songbirds as Senesino and Farinelli embellished their arias beautifully and at will, until Gluck in the second half of the 18th Century put them in their place with pinpoint notation, made them stick to the score...
Princeton picked up a fluke goal in the middle period when a loose puck bounced off the stick of Jack Carman in the Crimson goal mouth and rolled past goalie Phil Clark...
Most of the Jerry-built thrills are saved for the last few minutes of the picture where they are rapidly stacked one on another until everyone is exhausted. When the rubble is cleared away, Meredith decides to stick to his job even though he had been blamed for letting his dangerous patient run loose. What's more, he realizes that his wife is "all he has" and somehow finds his own case cured. Mixed up in the end of the film is the implication that Meredith's own affair blinded him to the condition of his patient which ended...
Harvard Law School is presently engaged in raising money from students for a building program. It spends thousands of dollars annually putting little stick and wire fences around its walks. It recently replaced the plain glass in Hastings Hall mail boxes with new, beveled glass. Many students hesitate to contribute money for such silly projects when the school is apparently too cheap to buy a load of gravel for a mired-in parking lot used every day by the very students asked to contribute...