Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like men leaping over a cliff, the brothers jumped out into the traffic. At sight of the two running men, waving revolvers, people flattened themselves against the buildings or ducked to the sidewalk. A taxi driver ran to Patrolman Edward Maher, directing traffic on the corner, yelled "Stick-up!" and pointed at the fleeing men. Maher raced after them, only 20 feet behind, afraid to shoot into the crowd. Motorists left their cars and joined the chase. Maher saw a clear space, shot twice, and William Esposito staggered sideways, fell face downward, one arm outstretched, one twisted under him, apparently...
...Finance Minister obliged by tendering his resignation last week. He made it stick in spite of Acting President Ramón S. Castillo's refusal to accept it. Juan Pueblo was not sure whether the resignation was a confession of defeat or a maneuver to pose as a martyred patriot. Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon...
...player who attracted the largest crowd was Open Champion Dwight K. Hubbard, 51, of Janesville, Wis. Champion Hubbard, onetime football coach, has been shuffling for ten years, has won the national championship six times. He already has more medals and ribbons than he can shake a shuffle-stick at. At week's end, it looked as if he might win another-if it would ever stop raining in Florida's famed Sunshine City...
...stooped, burly figure wearing a black Homburg hat and puffing a cigar strode through the City's ruins. When he came to a puddle of water several inches deep he waded through it. "Stick to it, Winnie," shouted the people as they recognized their Prime Minister. "We won't crack up!" "No sir," he replied, "we won't crack...
...remarry her because of an existing wife. After Wyn leaves with Kitty's promise to meet him later at the steamer, Kitty has a long argument with her conscience, which suddenly appears as an image of herself in the bedroom mirror. The problem: whether to stick to faithful Mark and live in conventional security or to follow her heart which has always be longed...