Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he looked fit and healthy in his fresh white uniform, gold-topped swagger stick and black Moslem cap, Sukarno had fallen ill twice during August, probably because of his chronic kidney trouble. During his recent trip to Europe, Viennese specialists urged an operation, but Sukarno is said to fear the scalpel, since his horoscope predicts that he will die by steel...
...months been broadcasting a daily indoctrination program entitled Service with a Smile, and the city's 800 taxi drivers had been sent to school for an intensive two-week course in basic French and elementary courtesy. The cabbies have even been ordered to make sure they stick to the proper attire: black trousers, white shirts and black ties...
Some newspapers have sent staffers to schools.and conferences to bone up on the intricacies of city government; others have assigned reporters permanently to their city's urban renewal and anti-poverty programs. The Richmond Times-Dispatch is training reporters not to stick to a particular city beat but to move with ease from city to surrounding counties; its energetic city hall reporter, Ed Grimsley, roams the U.S. as well as Canada in search of novel solutions to city problems. The Milwaukee Journal runs a fat Sunday section, Home, which covers all facets of the city building boom; many...
...fact that millions of Americans yearn for group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution or complacency, the chief pressure against change comes from the A.B.A.'s 1908 canons of ethics (now being studied for revision), which condemn all efforts to stir up law business and flatly ban "lay intermediaries" -non-lawyers who aid in the choice...
...STOVE-UP COWBOY'S STORY by James Emmit McCauley. 76 pages. Southern Methodist University. $5. "I was borned on the 14th day of August 1873, in Anderson County, Lone Star State. My parents be poor like Job's turkey. But my first memory was to ride a stick horse and my first wishes and desires was to be a wild and woolly cowboy." A wild and woolly cowboy that little boy became, and many years later, encouraged by Folk Singer John Lomax, the old wrangler rustled up a stub pencil to scribble off the story of "what...