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Word: sticks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shouted: "Everybody O.K.?" The answer came loud: "No!" Men were deep in the mud; Recruit Raymond Delgado yelled that he was up to his chest in the muck. McKeon turned to Recruit John Michael Maloof and ordered: "Go help them out." Replied Maloof: "O.K., but let me have your stick." Using McKeon's broomstick, Maloof pulled Delgado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death in Ribbon Creek | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...kind of grotesque pantomime of Beauty and the Beast this afternoon, the very big and fast Cornell football team will press the varsity lacrosse team, adroit but still unvictorious after two games and a spring trip; the Big Red gridders are reportedly not of the best with a stick, but the Crimson is not too big in the biceps and calves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lacrosse Squad Will Meet Powerful Cornell | 4/21/1956 | See Source »

...play begins to lag when the slap-stick is over. Randall, who himself plays the part of Malvolio, has turned the obvious solution of mistaken identities and misconceived ideas into minor melodrama at times. This converts Malvolio, actually a man of simple vanity and self-love, into a deep and muddled man. While it leads to great exploration of his character, underscoring of Malvolio's role seems disconcerting because he is actually superficial and should not arouse any real sympathy. Initially Malvolio's frustrations are good fun in the bawdy pattern of the designs against him, but later his quasipathos...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Twelfth Night | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

Coach Norm Shepard will send Dom Repetto to the mound against the Jumbos' Allan Hyman. Otherwise, Shepard will stick with the same lineup that opposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repetto Will Pitch for Nine Against Tufts | 4/17/1956 | See Source »

...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Man's Plaything | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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