Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he climbed into the bombardier's seat of a big R.A.F. plane. Over Nazi supply trains at Sofia, Bulgaria he let a stick of bombs go. Nick's dark eyebrows still twitched with excitement when he got back to Greece. "The train went up with a tremendous smash," he said...
...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...
...single Negro was below ground. It was at that point that Mr. Robinson was called from Boston, arrived in Butte for a Sunday meeting held in the Fox Theater. Solemnly 1,700 miners listened to telegrams from Phil Murray, Paul McNutt, General Brehon Somervell. Solemnly they voted to stick by their guns...
...British squadron leader described the carnage: "As we came in to drop the first stick, trucks careened madly off the road. It looked absolutely crazy. I saw one overturn and troops run like cockroaches-colliding, jumping headfirst into patches of scrub or any hole they could find." Said General Auby Strickland, chief of U.S. bombers in the desert, who led one formation of planes in pursuit of the German columns: "[Our bombers] turned and sailed down the road, spilling their bombs on vehicles and men. I never saw such a scene of destruction...
Sued for Divorce. Cinemactress Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver); by Edward A. A. Snelson, a subordinate judge in India; to make it stick; in London. She divorced him in Los Angeles in 1940 (the marriage had lasted one month, five days in 1933), but British law does not recognize some U.S. divorces...