Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Back." But with full backing from the U.S. and the Afro-Asian nations, the U.N. was determined to dictate a settlement to Tshombe and make it stick. If it fails, the rest of the Congo, starved of the riches that enable Katanga to account for 65% of the country's exports, could splinter into a score of warring tribal domains. Already a corps of 100 Central Government functionaries was flying into Elisabethville to take charge of Katanga's administration...
...Czars. Passing through the Theater section with its two million playbills, he unlocked another door and found himself in the Lincoln room. Death masks glared from the shelves and an ax well-worn from rail-splitting lay on a table in the center along with a blackthorn walking stick. "This is even better than the Thomas Wolfe manuscripts," he thought, recalling with some amusement the tons of paper which had arrived from Wolfe's executors. "Tons and tons of scrawly paper and three beer glasses," he muttered, walking next door to the science fiction room. He peered...
...Americans listened sympathetically, but Ambassador Foy Kohler had to stick to regulations.* Out went a call to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, explaining the situation and asking that the peasants be removed. Embarrassed by the whole thing, the U.S. officials prevented foreign correspondents from photographing or speaking with the visitors...
...challenged to put up or shove off. Under new, tax regulations effective Jan. 1, 1963, U.S. citizens living abroad will no longer be totally exempt from taxation on money earned overseas. Actually a maximum of $35,000 can still be clear, but that's all. Holden will probably stick by his loyalty to Switzerland anyway. Where else could he have George Sanders, Gregory Peck, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner. Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Stewart Granger, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Ustinov, Noel Coward, David Niven, Jack Palance and James Mason for approximate neighbors...
This time the charge was that Hoffa and another Teamster official had violated the Taft-Hartley Law by making $1,008,057 out of a trucking company with which the Teamsters did business. If Hoffa was worried about whether the rap would stick, he certainly managed to conceal his anxiety. During the long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members...