Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was seven, Max Band took his only pair of shoes to the village cobbler for re-soling. While he waited, barefoot, the cobbler fashioned a crude brush to varnish the new soles. He did it by pounding the tip of a stick until the fibers were separated and soft. Afterwards, Band ran home as fast as his new soles would carry him, made his own brush, and set to work on his first oil painting-using salad...
...wife, and then to Paris, where he made his reputation. Finally he came to the U.S., where he did President Roosevelt's portrait, among others. His latest pictures, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, still look a little as if they had been painted with a stick and salad dressing (he uses dark pigments, thickly smeared on), but the best of them have a melancholy force...
...their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the brink of execution, thanked the U.S. for fair treatment. Ill-famed wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other top wrongdoers are awaiting sentence. Nobody in Japan, certainly no American, could be sure that these lessons would stick. But the score was impressive...
...camp ground is the best site found so far for the study of the early Californian, an unimaginative lowbrow if there ever was one. Pinto Man did his hunting with a "throwing stick" which projected stone-tipped spears. He made no pottery, knew no agriculture...
...from the other end of the tube is swept across the picture by deflecting coils, which steer it. When the beam hits a strongly positive area, a good many of its electrons are attracted into the glass by the positive charge. When it crosses "shadows," only a few electrons stick. The rest bounce back and are gathered up by charged metal surfaces at the small end of the tube...