Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsibility would be all the heavier, the task all the harder because the Big Four had pledged themselves to preserve the "sovereign equality" of all member nations, large or small. If that term was to have real meaning, the job could not be done with a big stick. In effect the big nations, including the U.S., would have to underwrite the security and dignity of the little nations...
...from his sweetheart to find a group of men blocking his path. '"Do you spend the night beside the road, my brothers?' he inquired. . . . and for a moment they confronted him in a silence whose menace was unmistakable. . . . Then they closed in behind him. ... A short heavy stick flew between his legs and he fell face down on the road. They were upon him in a minute, and he gathered himself together with his head in his arms and his knees drawn against his stomach. . . . They tore his shirt from him and his trousers and beat him until...
...Whitney should be famed in the U.S. less for his cotton gin, on which he never made a dime (his landlady blabbed about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...
MacCool could also hit. To qualify for the Fianna, a band of soldiers in the service of Cormac Mac Art, Ireland's illustrious Third-Century king, he was buried to the knees as a target for nine warriors. With a shield and hazel stick, Finn knocked their spears aside...
...more disconcerting to our study habits than to watch the seniors packing their gear, preparatory to their happy exit. It wouldn't be so hard to take if they wouldn't whistle and sing while packing; they seem to forget that we are sensitive human beings and must stick around for another two months. However, they've been damn swell to us and we wish them the best of luck...