Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister is up at dawn, uses three offices (in the Constituent Assembly building, at the Foreign Ministry, in his home), will stick to desk work all day, then go through a barrage of social engagements, including dinner, then stay up until the small hours dictating to stenographers and lying in his charpoy (Indian string bed) to scan a day's bundle of news clippings. He drives himself equally hard, and much more spectacularly, when he gets away from offices and desks...
There is a growing army of futile door-to-door peddlers. Every day in apartment houses, Sfeuerbeamten (tax officials) stick tags on pianos, couches, chairs, attaching them for unpaid taxes. A third of the tenants are behind on rent...
Science Service revealed yesterday that most manufacturers have been adding powdered saccharine--200 times sweeter than sugar--to their current lipstick offerings. Just a little powder--it can be balanced on a pinhead--gives enough of a boost to each stick...
...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
...grandstand quarterback ignored the facts. Perhaps he was trying to impress the girl sitting next to him. Perhaps he sought the approval of a small band of disciples that sat around him. He should stick to student politics-or plumbing...