Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please, Mr. & Mrs. State Legislators, don't let the simple fact that the large majority of us will very naturally stick by our Commander in Chief until his job is completed hold you down in getting the plans laid-quick...
...Public. But the people were not entirely sheep. A few shoppers' strikes turned up. Sample: New York and Boston dealers, expecting to clean up on the well ballyhooed Christmas-tree shortage (they are not ceiling-priced), were stuck with a tree surplus when they had hoped to stick the citizenry...
Just after an operation, ordinary skin grafts slip over the tissues beneath; but Dr. Sano's grafts stick so tightly that even a gentle pull with forceps does not move them. For a dressing she uses vaselined gauze topped with a cork ring (not so tight as to hinder circulation...
...Sano says that cut livers will stick together fairly well without her glue but are likely to come apart because of bleeding. Her glue stops bleeding...
Miami. The thriving Herald (circulation up from 73,800 in 1941 to 103,000 this year) had failed to stick within its WPB paper quota. Result: even with an extra, 193-ton grant from WPB there was not enough paper to finish the year at normal rate of use. The Herald's drastic remedy: to eliminate all display advertising and to cut classified ad space in half. At least until year's end the Herald, usually 20 to 30 pages daily and 60 Sundays, will continue at a 12-page daily, 30-page Sunday clip...