Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dates back to the ginmill and the shin-length skirt. It's a picture about a co-ed college in what some people think were the good old days; but they weren't such hot days, and it's not such a hot movie, though a few Perelman gems stick out like well thumbs. For instance, the college is called "Huxley College." That's Perelman up to his old tricks again...
They had not learned the fact, intimately known to the British-and to the Russians-that the victors are supposed to stick around and clean up the peace. The people at home had not learned it either: they were in as much of a hurry as the G.I.s to get them home-back from that unpleasant outer world that neither understood nor appreciated what grand fellows (in George Patton's phrase) Americans were...
Doctors know what to do about the undernourished bodies of European children. What to do about their war-warped personalities is not so simple. Last week UNRRA workers described some 200 stick-legged, spare-ribbed children now housed at Kloster-Indersdorf Monastery north of Dachau. All are under 16 and all were former inmates of Dachau...
Alba's disgruntlement with things at home had long been known, his move long expected. But Alba, an ardent monarchist, might have been expected to stick at his post so long as he could do anything to help Pretender Don Juan de Bourbon, who has been waiting in Switzerland for the call to the throne. Apparently negotiations between Spain's moderate, non-Falangist faction and the Don Juanists had broken down. And Britain's Labor Government had shown no disposition to back a monarchist restoration in Spain...
...permitted A to soar to a shrill 912 vibrations. Actually the U.S. standard concert pitch is 880, by French count.* France diplomatically offered to compromise with the Big Three at 880-which is still ten vibrations more than its classical composers allowed-if the Big Three will stick to its professed standard...