Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Highly Volatile. Early last week in Montreal, Michelle Duclos loaded the trunk of her white 1961 Rambler with a brown cardboard box full of dynamite -each stick wrapped in pages of a French-language newspaper. The New Yorkers almost certainly could have purchased or stolen their dynamite closer to home, but getting it from Quebec terrorists added to the internationalism...
...meet practically any financing need. R. J. Reynolds officials used to shuttle to New York once a week on financing missions, but such trips are seldom necessary nowadays; they go to Wachovia. The bank's officials know their region well, and their formula for success is to stick to it. One bank officer recently had a crack at a multimillion-dollar piece of business in New York. He turned it down: too far north...
...government will have no difficulty in making the ban stick. It owns all the country's TV transmitting stations, rents facilities and program time to 14 privately owned producing companies, which make their money by selling advertising. The ban will cost them one of their best customers. Cigarette advertising now accounts for about $15 million of the commercial network's annual income of $224 million...
...fact, Taylor himself suggested the Bundy trip. It has become customary for the ambassador to return to Washington for consultations every couple of months. But with South Viet Nam in its present chaotic condition, Taylor felt that he should stick to his post (the last time he left, last fortnight on a trip to Laos, another Saigon government was thrown out of office). The ambassador even sent to Washington a memorandum listing some 20 points that he hoped to discuss at length with Bundy; they ranged from whether Taylor should fly to Washington to brief Congress some time soon...
...apres ski life is an object, better stick to the well known developments like Sugarbush, Mt. Snow, Killington and Cannon Mountain. But if you are concerned to maximize your skiing time and maybe save a little money, take a chance on one of these low-key areas...