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Maybe it's generational or regional, but we played "pick-up-sticks" in the 50's in New York.
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We played pick-up-sticks in the 50's in Minnesota, too.
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Several easels were stacked like pick-up-sticks in a corner.
One Season of Sunshine Julia London 2010
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We played pick-up-sticks in the 50's in Minnesota, too.
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Maybe it's generational or regional, but we played "pick-up-sticks" in the 50's in New York.
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Some plastic forks and knives were piled in stacks, others dropped pick-up-sticks style between the paper plates.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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My DB and I had a round of pick-up-sticks this afternoon.
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Known in America as Jack Straws or pick-up-sticks, the object of this game is to remove a stick from a pile without disturbing the remaining ones.
Conkers and the games children played during the Regency Joanna Waugh 2008
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Known in America as Jack Straws or pick-up-sticks, the object of this game is to remove a stick from a pile without disturbing the remaining ones.
Archive 2008-10-01 Joanna Waugh 2008
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Soon, playground conversation will sound like this: "Jimmy, I really appreciate you backing me up during dodgeball, and I understand how the Elmer's Glue on your fingers compromised your dexterity during pick-up-sticks, but after what will heretofore be known as 'the hopscotch debacle,' and your total lack of hand-eye synchronization during 'Hot Cross Buns,' I'm afraid to say you are no longer needed as Vice President of Play-Doh procurement."
Thomas Stern: A Kick in the Career: Back To School or Back to Boot Camp? 2008
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