Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor of returning Adolf Hitler to his proper handle, Adolf Schickelgruber. I think it would do a great deal, psychologically, to promote his bursting a blood vessel. Mr. Schickelgruber, reputedly a man whose inspirations are born of his emotions, might even be prodded to stick his neck out prematurely and thereby advance the conclusion of the current world inferno. "Heil Schickelgruber" certainly has a more deflating, if prolonged, sound than "Heil Hitler," and I venture it would mess up the little man's digestive processes no little...
...took a lot of courage to stick to Whirlaway. Bred at Millionaire Wright's farm in the heart of the Blue Grass, he is a colt of whom Kentuckians might well be proud: a handsome golden chestnut with a tail that almost sweeps the ground. But Whirlaway has inherited a tendency to run out (veer away from the inside rail) at the turns. That trait cost him several important races last year (he was defeated nine times in 16 starts). But Whirlaway proved that he is a stretch-running fool...
...brilliantly. Some sardonic wit in London last week figured out what B.E.F. meant: Back Every Fortnight. There was just enough truth in this interpretation to point up the real significance of the Battle of Greece. Britons can fight, but they will not be able to make an expeditionary force stick until some way, somehow, they get enough men, enough planes and enough tanks to approximate Nazi strength...
...patrols near Salum. And they minimized the decision of the Duke of Aosta, commanding Italian forces in East Africa, not to capitulate-which would mean further delay in moving forces to threatened Egypt. But the pause was poisoned for many Britons by the thought that the Germans might not stick to the coastal route, where they might be stopped relatively easily...
...Juilliard School of Music sent one of its greenest sprigs, highbrowed Henry Arthur ("Hine") Brown, to the Southwest to stir up sweet sounds. Mr. Brown taught violin at New Mexico College of Agriculture, didn't stir up much until he went to El Paso. Then he waved a stick over the amateurs, and they turned into an orchestra. In five years the symphony, selfsupporting, was coming and pahing with as much assurance as any young outfit in the land...