Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind 2-0 Yale spent the rest of the half tying the score. Attackman Sam Gwin scored first and another Bulldog shot got past goalie Gil Leaf at 9:46 of the second period. A Lou Williams quick-stick made it 3-2 Harvard, but the persistent Elis evened the score to end the half...
...National Labor Relations Board election gave Teamsters in the four-state region a choice between Hoffa's union and a rival union set up by the rebels. Although the insurgents were actively supported by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the Teamsters voted by a two-to-one margin to stick with Hoffa...
...visiting poetry professor at Oxford and (for 40 years) a tireless reformist inspector of the British school system. Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class. He takes...
...idea seems pretty tame now. When Shelley Winters explains this Weltanschauung in the movie's fade, for the benefit of the slow-witted, she adds a powerful insult to a rather mild injury. As for sensuous aspects, devotees of this limited segment of cinema art had better stick to Washington Street. There is nothing in The Balcony that could overly disturb a Puritan Sunday picnic...
Where faculty freedom flourishes, professors who get fired are usually guilty of some act so flagrant that the president believes he can make the ouster stick. In 1960, University of Illinois President David D. Henry fired Biologist Leo F. Koch after Koch wrote a letter to the campus newspaper backing premarital sex among students. Said Koch: "With modern contraceptives and medical advice readily available at the nearest drugstore, or at least a family physician, there is no valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating...