Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come out for the CRIMSON?" you ask. The answers are many and obvious. You meet many new people both inside the University and out. You find out many things about Harvard you never knew before. You have an excuse you never otherwise have to stick your nose into places and meet professors, University officials, and other famous personages. You can get free tickets to movies and other events, and you will never be better known in your own and in other classes...
...risking an expeditionary force in Greece while Yugoslavia wavered. "Early this morning Yugoslavia found her soul," said Winston Churchill fervently. The U. S. had also played a part, by passing the Lend-Lease Act and promising aid to Britain's allies, and President Roosevelt made this promise stick in a message of congratulation to King Peter. Russia had helped, by pledging neutrality to Turkey if Turkey should be attacked, thereby suggesting to Turkey the advisability of a treaty with Yugoslavia. But those who had done most were the people, and the people appropriately rejoiced...
...Indian North-West Frontier, General Platt has for three years been Raid d'Amm (Arabic for General Officer Commanding) of the Sudan.In two of those years, his dark hair went white. Raid d'Amm Platt, who always carries a fly-whisk instead of the usual stick, has been something of a heretic in his handling of native troops: he cannot see why a white-skinned man should have any more modern equipment than a dusky-skinned...
Mike Quill, who carries a briar stick and limps around with a bullet in his hip, which he got in the Irish Republican Army, has been fighting since he was a Boy Scout. He started his labor career in the U. S. as moneychanger in a subway booth, got interested in union politics and helped start T. W. U. In 1937 he got a closed-shop contract for his new, pugnacious union. In 1939, as candidate for re-election to the New York City Council, he took the Communist line, refused to go along with the American Labor Party...
...smoking, and when he talked with you, he coughed at length, and the familiar smile left his face. Pierre de Chaignon la Rose had been a scholar and a dandy, but in the last few years his glory seemed to be a mere question of spats and stick-pin, though it would occasionally flash in his innumerable stories. Seeing him in full dress in the subway late at night, you could almost guess the story...