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Word: sticks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murder used to be all a mystery novelist needed to get on with his story. The new whodunits stick to that main tent at traction, but beckon the jaded customers with such lurid little sideshows as sadism, pandering, homosexuality, counterfeiting, prostitution, adultery and grave-robbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Mysteries | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...golf. On the next to last day of his Georgia vacation he shot 18 holes of golf, hunted for two hours, sat up till 12:30 playing bridge.) There was an almost clinical detachment in his behavior on the golf course, where, ignoring his doctors' recommendation that he stick to the electric cart, he regularly turned to his companions to say, "Now let's walk a bit." The only possible conclusion was that the President was testing himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Psychological Breakthrough | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...first jet-powered basic trainer, the Air Force hopes to save money by sharply reducing the flight hours necessary to qualify a cadet for supersonic fighters and bombers. Flight cadets will drop 90 hours of prop training in North American's T-28 trainer, take the stick of the Cessna jet after only 40 hours of basic piston-engine flight in Beech's Mentor (T-34. In the T-37, instructor and student sit side by side instead of tandem. With 150 hours in the T-37, the student can step up to Lockheed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Everyman's Jet? | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...lights it when the clock show no time is left. Lind said he based his nogoal decision on the fact that "the clock time is left. Lind said he based his nogoal decision on the fact that "the clock showed 0:00 before the puck hit McVey's stick." McVey's subsequent shot, then, came after the game was over, and the manual delay in turning on the light caused the controversy, Lind said...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Yale Sextet Beats Varsity Despite Disputed Play, 1-0 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...Friend still hasn't found a girl friend, but come Monday, were he wise, he'd stick around to watch the happy renaissance of the Shubert when Can-Can arrives. Girls, yet, then. Boys, still, today, at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Last performance (guaranteed) for the month of March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

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