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Word: stick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Penn's rude disregard of his change in strategy seems to have convinced Wilson to stick to his usual zone defense against the Quakers this Friday. The varsity has been working on the fast break at practices this week which would further indicate that the zone is in the works for Penn...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Basketball Team to Meet Penn, Tigers This Weekend | 2/21/1963 | See Source »

Blakey scored two goals against Williams earlier in the week and makes up in good stick handling what he lacks in speed...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Varsity Faces Princeton At Watson Rink Tonight | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

...Chairman J. Peter Grace, 49, international-minded president of W. R. Grace & Co: the Alliance "in its present size and form cannot succeed." Investors are frightened away by the "unfavorable business climate" in Latin America. Profits are low, risks high. The U.S., continued Grace, should adopt a "carrot-and-stick approach." with grants and loans to encourage Latin Americans to enact laws more hospitable to private investment. The committee recommended greater tax incentives and deductions as a cushion against heavy losses. Even then, concluded Grace, "it is unlikely that normal conditions attractive to foreign capital can be created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Alliance in Danger | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...OECD, the European economic coordinating group that grew out of the Marshall Plan? Hardly, since the economies of all Western European nations are intertwined with France's. The urgent French need to export food surpluses, and its booming market for other nations' industrial goods, are the stick and the carrot that have given the community much of its momentum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Round 1 to the General | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Your dreams oj independent power, And dear old Konrad Adenauer, And stick them up your Eiffel Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The End of the Affair | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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