Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans would have preferred to ignore the British air front-if they could. One lone Nazi plane threaded its way eastward past the swarms of eastbound Britishers, dropped a stick of bombs on southeast England, hurt one person. Casualties in Britain from German bombs for all of February: 22 dead, 21 injured...
...firsthand contact with America." Accordingly, he announced that Minister of External Affairs Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt was being sent to Washington. A great leftist authority on constitutional law who lectured at Harvard in 1938, tough-tongued Minister Evatt should be able to make Prime Minister Curtin's message stick...
...Lethal five-inch guns aboard our 'tin cans' [destroyers] opened up while the raiders still were thousands of yards away. All the time our fighters were darting in & out. One flustered raider unloaded a stick of bombs at least a mile from any objective...
Lithographs, printed from a dampened stone on which a design, drawn with greasy crayon, retains a coating of printer's ink which fails to stick to the" wet stone. Lithographs have been made since the beginning of the 19th Century, but have become popular with U.S. artists only since the 1920s. Today they are probably the most popular form of print, and their recent development has been almost exclusively a U.S. phenomenon...
Most popular and distinctive of samba instruments is the large, roundish cabaca, a gourd around which rattling beans are strung on loose strings. Other noisemakers include the reco-reco (sounds like running a stick along a picket fence), the cuica (a dull squeak). Above them the syncopated samba tunes run their jerky course...