Word: sticking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Denver, Don Gallegos watched his wife scrape off fingernail polish with a paring knife, said, "I bet you're afraid to stick me," ended up with a deep gash across his chest...
...been a tall man before he was bowed by his disgusting sickness, and even now he walked with a vigorous step. The dismal beating oj his bell, the pattering of the stick, the eyeless screen before his countenance, and the knowledge that he was not only doomed to death and suffering, but shut out forever from the touch of his fellowmen, filled the lads' bosoms with dismay; and at every step that brought him nearer, their courage and strength seemed to desert them...
Over the head of every sponsored radio show hangs a heavy threat: its Hooperating.* If the rating is too low, the sponsor usually cancels the show. Results: 1) new shows, which take time to win an audience, often die aborning; 2) U.S. radio is encouraged to stick to the trite and truistic; 3) the Hooper system has more influence than friends among radio show folk...
Wrote opinionated old Portraitist Augustus John: "To have him portrayed permanently on his legs or somebody else's (even without walking stick!) would be an intolerable solecism, dishonoring to a great and unvanquished spirit, and a lasting monument to British ineptitude only." Opera Singer Marjorie Lawrence, like Roosevelt a polio victim, asked "Why not present...
...size of Europe and the U.S. put together, and most of it has never been seen by the human eye. Most, but not all of it is covered with level, monotonous névé (permanent snowfield feeding the continent's icecap). In many places, great peaks stick up through the ice, as bare and forbidding as mountains on the moon. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition's commander, thinks there may be ranges 15,000 ft. high...