Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hush fell over the Yard as James S. Simmons, Dean of the School of Public Health, stepped up to award the degrees in that subject at Commencement ceremonies last week. Maybe a shoemaker should stick to his last, but no doctor should be completely immersed in the test tube...
...sadhus who had gathered on the Jumna's banks had a martyr,* if not a program for India. Swami Krishnanandji, like many another holy picketer, had been taken to jail. The police took away his trishool (5-ft. wooden staff with three points, known as the "stick of righteousness"), without which no sadhu can take food. So Krishnanandji went on a hunger strike. The police released him, but too late. He trudged wearily back to the sadhu camp. The next day, while a score of fellow ascetics chanted prayers and slogans ("Victory unto the Lord who alone destroys...
...Horseshoe (started in 1938), was grossing $1,250,000 a year, and ranked with Grant's Tomb and the Staten Island ferry as a Manhattan tourist attraction. Billy says of this period: "The race is over, I told myself. Stop running. You've won. Let 'em stick the wreath around your neck and snap the pictures. go on back to the barn and take it easy...
...thrice married and one of the hidden heroes of a U.S. at war. His job: acting as secret agent for Franklin Roosevelt, his great, good friend ("Thanks as always, old man," says F.D.R.; "your data have been invaluable. . . . Would you like some iced tea, or something with a stick...
...Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged Bakunin with shady financial dealings and with being a Czarist agent. He could not make the charge stick, but Bakunin withdrew to lick his wounds...