Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africans wanted the Council to order an embargo on arms to Portugal that could be used for "repression of the peoples." Although Washington has already curtailed such arms, the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson balked, pleaded that the U.N. should stick to persuasion. A watered-down resolution, which passed 8 to 0, "requests" the arms embargo and "urgently calls upon" Lisbon to free its colonies. The U.S. still abstained...
Shaw subtitled this comedy "A History Lesson." He was already firmly entrenched in his favorite role of being the educator-entertainer. He was not, however, presenting himself as one of the scholar-professors (though he intuitively knew more than most of these); he felt no obligation to stick to all the historical facts, nor even to ferret them all out in the first place. Nor did he hesitate to fill the play with anachronisms, thereby incurring the wrath of a host of commentators (most of whom, however, would not dream of criticizing Shakespeare for including clock-strikings in Jullus Caesar...
...season for reruns. Last fall in Chicago, it took Charles ("Sonny") Liston 2 min. 6 sec. to pluck the heavyweight crown from Floyd Patterson. Last week in Las Vegas, Liston spent 2 min. 10 sec. pounding Patterson into boxing oblivion. Like a man killing a rabbit with a stick, he clubbed the hapless challenger to the canvas-gracelessly and methodically, his sulphur-and-obsidian eyes betraying neither pleasure nor anger. "It was just something I had to do," grunted Sonny, whose mind was obviously on something else...
...companies, of course, intend to stick basically to refining and selling petroleum products. But since the early 1950s, the $48 billion oil industry, suffering from a profit squeeze, has gone questing for new sources of earnings. The industry got tangled in excess refining capacity built up during the Korean war. Its foreign operations have sometimes suffered from such cut-price competitors as the Russians, and intense competitiveness at home has brought on gasoline price wars in some areas. Compact cars drink less gasoline, and have helped to reduce the annual rise in gasoline sales from...
...their teeth chipped by the microphones that are thrust in their faces, and there has been more than one black eye from a swinging elbow. Onetime Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was so incensed by the reporters' aggressive questioning that he whacked one of them with his walking stick as he left his mansion...