Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human donkey requires either a carrot in front or a stick behind to goad it into activity. It is fashionable at the moment to argue that the carrot is the more important of the two: "incentive" is the watchword, and all classes of the community are busy arguing that if only they are given a little bit more in the way of incentive (at the expense of the rest of the community) they will respond with more activity. ... But it is probably more realistic (though it has that touch of brutal cynicism that is so much frowned upon these days...
...spite of people who think professors ought to be impartial, I like to stick my neck out," said William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, as he gave his support to the aims of the "Save O.P.A." rally Wednesday noon, finally forced to meet at Sanders Theater...
...pentecostal excesses. "Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy." When some of her southern followers once essayed a bit of holy rolling, Bishop White merely said, "You get right up or I'll stick a pin in you." It worked...
...Moravek blew hot and cold on the hill all afternoon, he was anything but erratic at the plate. His triple and single were probably the two hardest hit balls all day. Bill Harford's two hits, one of which drove in runs, partially atoned for his failure with the stick at New Haven. HARVARD ab r h po a e Sullivan, 3b 3 1 0 2 1 1 Hubbell, rf 3 2 1 3 0 0 Senseney, 2b 4 0 1 1 3 0 Fiorentino, 1b 4 1 1 5 1 0 Harford...
Protect a Monopoly? If the proposals stick, most of the lines can stay in business only by trying to get a franchise as a scheduled line. Few had the cash or time to push an application through CAB over the objections of established lines. The cargo business, the new lines grumbled bitterly, would now go to the regularly scheduled lines...