Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known about the rest of the squad, but a few of last year's stars will definitely be unavailable this spring. Captain-elect Bart Harvey graduated at midyears and will not don the Crimson for the coming campaign. His fine play around at second base as well his heavy stick work will be sorely missed. Bill Barnes, outfielder and end on the football squad, also departed in January. Thayer Drake, shortstop...
...workers were equally undaunted. Said Storekeeper Floyd Bagley: "It's good exercise." Accountant Grover Lowe: "I've got a boy in England and another up north. . . . This gives me a chance to do something." Verne Hickey, Chamber of Commerce president: "Merely a matter of changing a golf stick for a shovel . . . Didn't even have to change my stance much...
...least, if they intended to fight for southern Russia, they might have been expected to stick doggedly to the Donets River line running southeast from Kharkov through Voroshilovgrad. But last week Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin's armies crossed the Donets and captured Izyum on the railway between Kharkov and Rostov. The fall of Izyum meant: 1) that the Red Army had a springboard for a jump toward Dniepropetrovsk 125 miles southwest; 2) that Kharkov was threatened by a pincer arm from the south; 3) that Voroshilovgrad (whose capture was apparently imminent) had in effect been bypassed some 90 miles...
Last month it finally managed to purchase part of a unit, but had to build the missing pieces before the unit could be used at all. If OPA should stick to its ruling, Union's mill would have to close down one month this quarter, might not reopen for the duration because hard-to-hire mill hands would romp off to other jobs. Probable outcome: Kraft paper is so essential for shipping war materials that oil may be provided...
...real pleasure it has given me. When I come home, tired and hungry and irritable from standing over a hot record all day, I just sit right down and start to chew on some of those precious little pearls of wisdom that drop from its pages. And do they stick in my throat? Do they choke me? Why, I should like to state right here and now that they most certainly...