Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised that North Carolina would sponsor such an advertisement [One Language Is Enough in North Carolina] as appeared on page 88 of TIME, June 14 (though I was heartily ashamed).... Please, leave such outbursts of "99% Americanism" to Social Justice and the Patterson-McCormick publications, and let TIME stick to the 100% Americanism of Sabata, Judd, et al. (p. 25, June 14 issue...
...unpacking his trunk in Cambridge, secure in the ascetic belief that his next two or three years will be spent with his nose deep in books. It is intended for the Freshman who thinks Harvard is all hard work, who is going to give up going with women and stick to the intellectual discipline of the University. It is for the man who thinks that he will, perforce, be faithful to his home-town love and will never have a chance to relax with the belles of Greater Boston...
...ship" . . . "The guys told me I'd have to eat goldfish" . . . "It's going to be tough taking math after seven years" . . . "I'm going to work like hell at the beginning to get on to this stuff" . . . "After just looking at this place I want to stick" . . . "Wonder if they'll give us credit towards a degree...
...Plainly enough to some readers (see below), TIME's reviewer was talking about the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Perhaps Reader Clute should stick to prose...
Stubborn, proud, prejudiced, Kaltenborn nevertheless has stuck to the tradition of free speech and made it stick. More powerful pressure groups have tried to run him off the air than have attacked any other commentator. He has beaten all of them, including America First, which had his sponsor (Purol) on the ropes with their anti-interventionist mail. He has insisted on saying what he wanted to, and his audience (about 10,000,000) has forgiven his mistakes and gone on listening. His long-range batting average is pretty good...