Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sink or Swim. Home has considered the issue more carefully than he is often given credit for, is on record with a remarkable statement of Britain's domestic challenges. "For the trade unions," he has said, "the choice is whether to remain sunk in the stick-in-the-mud attitudes of the twenties and thirties, a prey to Depression fixations, meeting today's prosperity with yesterday's attitudes of mind, or whether to operate an up-to-date organization in modern conditions of affluence, where the object would be to produce as much wealth as possible...
...dinner jacket is the keystone of the entire formal wardrobe. It comes in black and all sorts of other colors and can be worn with trousers that do not match. Although the range of colors is large--including madras, plaids, and usually garish solids--it is best to stick to black. In fact, one black dinner jacket should be enough to take you through all the social thickets you may decently expect to encounter...
...this thing's not going to be won in a day. But if we stick...
Washington will not only need to use its influence through the OAS to return democracy to the Dominican Republic. It must also exert continued and lasting pressure on the army to make constitutionalism stick. If the United States supplemented this with a program of aid and export price supports far more comprehensive than any it has yet offered, a new government in Santo Domingo might find the prosperity and stability that alone can insure democracy will stay there...
...very day of Orrick's pronouncement, and the Central's President Alfred Perlman denounced the Administration's stand as "impractical and unrealistic." The final decision about the merger is still up to the independent ICC, but the Administration will probably be able to make its stand stick. Before year's end President Kennedy will appoint two new ICC members, thus gaining a majority of supporters on the eleven-man commission before the Pennsy-Central proposal is put to a vote...