Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the first bombing that he really found out what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...
...Dishes which will need only rinsing, no wiping, because water will not stick to them...
...Sense of the Past. In Salt Lake City, Merrill Clement, 35, recalled high spots in his life since the age of four: stung twice by swarms of bees, kicked by a horse, struck by lightning, punctured in the stomach by falling on a stick while running away from a bull, treed by another bull, gouged in three fingers by a saw, hit under the eye by a cement mixer crank...
Beef and Britain. Instead of speaking softly and carrying a big stick, the U.S. had been shouting loudly to cover up the fact that it could not use its big stick, for reasons of Hemisphere policy. The Argentines refused to be bluffed. Short of armed force, about the only effective action against Argentina would be a joint U.S.-British embargo on Argentine trade. Britain was reluctant, for three good reasons. Argentines knew all three...
...running big, lush color ads in newspapers-all, Milt says disgustedly, "with uniformly lousy results." The trouble, he feels, was that these ads plugged the name Londonderry instead of telling people how they could make ice cream cheaper at home than they could buy it. Now Londonderry ads stick to the cold facts. This year, telling them will cost...