Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decent Chaps. In Newark, stickup men robbed George B. Chandless Jr. of a $900 payroll, kindly paused in their getaway to hand him back his chocolate bar and licorice stick...
...part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...
...excitable Colombian press had an anti-U.S. field day. El Tiempo talked of a "bad neighbor" policy, dredged up such old standbys as "dollar diplomacy," "manifest destiny," the "big stick." El Espectador accused the U.S. of "economic aggression." The reason for the uproar was that the U.S. and Colombia had got themselves tangled in an unseemly row over shipping coffee...
...baton twirler is lacking. Manager Jay Skinner '48 and other high up in the band hierarchy are currently engaged in an intensive search calculated to produce someone who can toss a shiny metal shaft around. "We have never marched on the field without a baton twirler to toss his stick over the goal posts," Skinner declared...
...Ottawa Journal: "In a Pan American Union, Canada would almost inevitably side with the United States. Doing so, we should incite South American suspicion; have the Latin Republics believe that we were part of a North American bloc . . . subservient to a 'big stick' from Washington. Better . . . [to] be regarded as neutral, or, better still, as a friend...