Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atom" did not work, but in 1913, when Bohr was 28, he applied to it the strange new concepts of the quantum theory, which bewildered most physicists then as they bewilder most laymen now. The atomic electrons, said unclassical Physicist Bohr, cannot revolve in any old orbit. They must stick to certain particular orbits, and when they jump from one to another, they emit light. In 1913 this theory seemed "against common sense," but it won against all critics and started physics on the road to understanding the atom...
...Druggist Carl Fisher of Middleburg, U.S.A., a sort of male Ma Perkins whose soda-fountain stools spun with ordinary people with ordinary problems. After 3½ years the synod elders decided that the Fisher family had come to be simply "busybodies snooping around the neighborhood hunting for something to stick their noses into." So Life abandoned the Fisher pharmacy for separate, self-contained dramatizations of modern social problems-how a family reacts when polio strikes, how a man adjusts to blindness, the dilemmas...
...stick: the bar, a synecdoche from an era when most bars featured manual pumps...
...American failure to persuade Tito to stick with the Western nations which have no diplomatic contact with East Germany immediately raised some question about the future of U.S. aid for Yugoslavia. Although a Communist country, it is considered independent of Kremlin control...
...white. They don't talk to you any more. And the shame is that most of those niggers don't want to go to school with white people any more than we do with them. They want good schools, sure. But where the schools are the same, they'll stick together mostly. It's not integration they want. They want to be as good as white folk. And I say fine. The sooner the better. But 'till then, let's keep them out of the schools...