Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connoisseur. In Nice, France, a judge couldn't quite stick Dr. Caillet's will, declared it invalid, since it set up an annual prize for the local citizen who had the straightest nose, smallest wrists, and largest hands-provided his hair was red and his eyebrows black...
...Stick. By last week the battle lines were drawn. Mason Owlett threw in the full weight of the P.M.A. coffers. No Pennsylvania manufacturer went uncalled, no weight of pressure on wavering delegates went unused. Ed Martin had been independent of Joe Grundy when he was governor. But now, through him, Grundy and Owlett cocked the big stick of federal patronage. A Republican President would have 101,000 federal jobs to distribute in the state (though many of them were under civil service). U.S. Senator Ed Martin would be the man to parcel them...
...Munich, a denazification court gave 84-year-old Composer Richard Strauss a clean bill of health: all he had done while the Nazis were in power was stick to his unpolitical music...
...Philadelphia, civic corruption is like the pigeons that swarm in City Hall courtyard. Both are nourishing, messy and endemic. Now & then someone gets exasperated, picks up a big stick and chases them. After a great clatter of wings, everything settles down again-the pigeons in the courtyard, the rascals in the hall...
...piece of Communist propaganda recently miscarried. Even Italian Communists couldn't stomach the stick sentimentality of a Russian propaganda movie. It showed a Russian airman ready to die in glory while Comrade Stalin, over the radio, urged him to live on. Interrupted Italian comrades" We want Walt Disney...