Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of socially harnessing nuclear energy is not different in kind from that presented by each technological advance in turn since the day when man first bound stone to stick to help him hew wood and grind corn and then realized it could also serve to bash his neighbor's brains...
There was another difference. F.D.R., a great political tactician, had the knack of making his speeches stick to a single issue, as sharp as a bayonet. He deployed his strength so that he could usually choose his own enemies. Usually they turned-up in the guise of black reactionaries or members of the lunatic fringe, whom he could belabor with abandon...
...cinema scenarist and producer, wartime member of Admiral William F. Halsey's staff; both for the third time; on Terminal Island, Calif. At ceremony's end, Gene pecked Myrna's cheek, she pecked Best Man Halsey's. Said the Markeys: "This time it will stick." Her former husbands: Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., Advertising Executive John D. Hertz Jr. His former wives: Cinemactresses Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr...
Died. Will Thorne, 88, Falstaffian British Laborite M.P. for 39 years, who spiced debates in Commons with protesting blasts on a football referee's whistle and stentorian encouragement (e.g., to Lady Astor during a hot discussion: "Stick it, lass, stick it!"); in London. A barber's assistant at six, he never had a day's formal education, believed firmly in marriage (when remarrying at 72 he explained: "I've had three wives and they were all jolly good ones"), once averred that a sensible Frau could keep even Hitler out of mischief...
...Johnson-TIME, Nov. 5.) Some of Nick's parishioners were scattered among Condon's opening-night audience, lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth child of an Indiana saloonkeeper: "the Paramount-once-a-week, glass-top-bus crowd. They stick around hoping to get into a picture. I don't mind the Hoosiers. They can come down, sit down, shut up, drink and get charged...