Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There may be a painting of a schooner over Donald Douglas' mantel, but Endymion today is a cutter. Thousands of Los Angeles yachtsmen, familiar with Endymion's magnificent single stick, remember that she was converted to a more modern rig a number of years...
...running down the street of Boston's Allston section, a fine-looking kid of seven, perhaps eight. He was slashing with a stick, shouting "A Jew, a Jew, let's chase him!" The Jew, a lad of seven, perhaps eight, was scuttling off, hard as he could go. The Christian Science Monitor man, passing by, had seen it all before, this aggressiveness, this haunted fear, these ugly cramps in the fine faces of boys, born in Boston, raised in Boston, slugging it out in Boston. But neither the Monitor nor any other Boston paper had talked...
...month big-league career that ended last week with the fall of the stick had started like a rocket (TIME, July...
...Couldn't. . . ." "Several times I tried to let down and fly contact close to the water . . . but I couldn't put the nose down-as soon as I would start down, I would unconsciously start pulling back on the stick again and go back...
...mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...