1.   That ensign of tutorial authority, the hickory stick.

2.   In our schools this is reflected by the vanishing hickory stick and the emerging psychiatrist.

3.   The hickory stick had its faults, and the psychiatrist has his strengths.

4.   Teachers must be doing something right, and probably could do a lot better if hickory sticks were still politically correct.

5.   The short hitter might as well play with a set of hickory sticks.

6.   Woods could do that playing with hickory sticks and a Wiffle ball.