Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though opposed by the Army & Navy, and delayed five weeks by War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes. It will mean only a trickle of goods, but it was a triumph, even though small, for his side of the Reconversion War. For Nelson, with many other officials, believes that war workers will stick to their high-pay jobs only if they are sure that peace will not come with a thud. And workers could see the end of war production coming...
...fish and sold it back. They burned all our books. They made us take off our hats and bow when they went by. At first they would take our girls away and if they would not go to bed they would slap them and then take a big stick and beat them. Then the Japs brought in their own women...
They wore rakish straw and panama hats gleaned on the march. One Maori wheeled his Bren gun in a streamlined perambulator. Another wore a silk hat and carried a walking stick, his Bren gun strapped across his back. One company marched into a village, captured outlying houses in the midst of their own barrage. Complained a prisoner: "We didn't think you would come until the barrage lifted...
Nowhere was there a man who hated the Russian regime more deeply than Mannerheim. But nowhere was there a man the Finns were more likely to follow with blind faith. And the Russians are realists. Only Mannerheim could make a crippling peace and make it stick. But the Kremlin was not in a waiting mood. It was reported to have given the Finns twelve days to decide whether to negotiate for peace or face a resumption of the Red Army's offensive...
Scorcher. In St. Louis, Clarence Brown Jr. was hospitalized and treated for burns after being hit by a line drive in a sand-lot baseball game. The batter had scored a bulls-eye on a pocketful of stick matches...