Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University in Jamaica, L.I., former U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce warned that Red China, now "isolated militarily and economically by both U.S.S.R. and U.S. policy," might turn desperately aggressive. In Southeast Asia, said she, "we must hold firm even if it becomes necessary to wield a nuclear stick over the head of Mao Tse-tung." But, added Speaker Luce, there are other ways to stop Chinese expansionism. "For example, what argument can be made for our present policy of trading with the Russians or selling them wheat that cannot also be made for trading with Red China...
...University Council began a crackdown, adopting a "repeater's rule," which expels any engineering student failing two subjects twice or one subject three times. Rector Jesus María Bianco thinks that the reform, modest though it seems, is long overdue. And he intends to make it stick...
Caldwell should stick to his fictional white trash. They are more interesting...
Black Africa, however, has done little to make the boycott stick. South African steel, autos and sugar find their way into most of the nations supporting the ban. Reason: South Africa's advanced technology, low labor costs and modest shipping charges result in price tags many Black Africans find irresistible. "My country," sighs Northern Rhodesian Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda, "cannot afford to boycott South Africa...
...music-rock 'n' roll with a straight stick and no muffler-death emerges only in traffic safety parables...