Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government took stock too, and then got a grip on its stick. A dawning fact was that trucks, not subject to rationing at all, could and probably would become the source of a rushing, illicit supply...
...street. A passing motorist crashed into it, immediately threatened suit. Grumman and Swirbul retired to the corner dog wagon, there ate hamburgers moodily, brooding on the unprofitable aspects of a business launched with a legal action. But after the second cup of coffee they decided to stick. The plaintiff dropped his suit when the partners offered to repair his car free. Next step was to saw off the amphibian's tail, repair it, reattach the amputated section and return the corporation's first...
...taken technicians five years of Yankee ingenuity and stick-at-it-iveness to do the job. But they had done...
Bottleneck. Last night I stood on the Ava bridge beside two Scottish lads, Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners, who were ready to plunge a stick that would set off 2,000 lb. of explosives and wreck the second largest bridge in the Far East across the Irrawaddy River. British 25-pounders, manned by Indians, were hurling shells in the direction of Mandalay, which has been burning since April 4th and is overrun with dacoits and traitors who are shooting at the Chinese garrison in the darkness through the completely flattened ruins of a city of onetime 120,000 population, where...
...inspection work where keen eyes and sensitive fingers often find flaws a man misses (Newton A. Woodworth, maker of engine parts, says it is easier to make a woman "quality conscious" than a man); 4) women workers are more docile than men workers; 5) last but not least, they stick at their jobs, respond readily to speed-up campaigns...