Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diving suits equipped with two oxygen tanks, submarine-type air cleansing devices, tubes for liquid food, the fukuryus could operate in deep water (most effectively at 50 feet), walk under water more than a mile an hour, stay under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a stick a ten-kilogram explosive charge with contact fuse. A floating chamber behind the charge made it easy to handle. The fukuryus, organized in squads and platoons, were to wait till a vessel passed overhead, then ram the mine into the ship's bottom. They were to be protected from...
Indonesian moderates, led by Premier Sutan Sjahrir, tried to curb the violence, announced their readiness to meet with the Dutch, "although we will stick to our claim to self-determination...
...large spoonful of chili was dumped on their plates by brash, young (26) ex-Sergeant Marion Hargrove, author of the best-selling See Here, Private Hargrove. In a speech aptly called "See Here, Private Enterprise," Hargrove talked up to the N.A.M. like a Dutch nephew telling off his stick-in-the-mud uncles...
...progress is agonizingly slow. Up to now, some paraplegics have spent most of their time fighting infections, undergoing surgery. Walking, if finally mastered, is a titanic effort of shoulder muscles - of braces weighing 15 lbs. which take 15 minutes to put on. Most of the patients prefer to stick to the wheelchair...
...life at every point. Occupiers and occupied were disgusted. Only the French insisted that zonal administration should not be modified until they had an answer on their proposal to internationalize the Ruhr; used their veto power in the Allied Control Council in Berlin to make their obstructionism stick...