Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motley armada of transports, barges, converted yachts, tugs and a codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from...
There's a spherical middle-aged Gremlin Who'll spin on your stick like a top. . . . -R.A.F. Coastal Commrnd...
...Utah and Idaho, WMC recently worked out a voluntary "freezing" arrangement with employers and unions: henceforth no copper, lead or zinc miner can leave his job without permission; to make the agreement stick, the War Labor Board raised wages $1 a day - 25% instead of the 15% formula. Said one mine operator: "This is a perfect case of locking the barn door after the horse is stolen." One-fifth of the miners are already gone...
...midnight, Lieut. General Eisenhower (who became a brigadier general only a year ago) and Major General Handy will revert to lieutenant colonel and major respectively, with the right to run a regiment and a battalion. Until then, they have their turn at making history and making their stars stick...
...their barracks at night they are constantly and rashly offering $10 for a chocolate malted or $20 for a glimpse of a blonde. They tell each other they would give a cool million dollars, perhaps a billion, to get back home "just for a week or two." But they stick hard to the nerve-racking duty of waiting, just waiting. They are not likely to be caught by surprise. They are alert and healthy and they would be happy if the Japs would only come, or something would happen...