Word: stick
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G.M.A.C. officials hotly deny the "loss leader" charge, point to their hefty $53 million earnings last year as proof that they are seriously out to make a profit. The Justice Department has never been able to make monopoly charges against G.M.A.C. stick. In 1952, after twelve years of futile efforts to persuade the courts to order General Motors to divest itself of G.M.A.C., the trustbusters had to settle for a consent decree under which G.M. promised not to force its dealers to use G.M.A.C. financing...
Among the many shortcomings of literary life in the U.S. is its lack of a mean old man. There are plenty of lovable old men-Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Henry Miller-but no old curmudgeon who clubs young reporters with a tongue like a blackthorn stick and sends them scurrying back to their editors filled with terror and fine quotes. It is a grievous lack. Almost every other part of U.S. society has had such a man: the House of Representatives had its Uncle Joe Cannon, the tobacco industry its George Washington Hill, labor its John L. Lewis and baseball...
...already qualifies in every particular except age. He is a vigorous 57, and will have to marinate a few years longer to achieve the full grandeur of his office. Otherwise his credentials are excellent. He wears tweeds, has been photographed in the company of an impressively ugly walking stick, and lays his tongue smartly across the backs of churls...
Foreign aid is in trouble again. Mr. Passman made heavier cuts than usual in Congressional allocations, and made them stick; Mr. Bowles, one of the program's fondest defenders, accused it of failing to require sufficiently high standards of planning; and now the agency director is about to pack his briefcase and return to New York, where no Congressman will ever come to shatter his sleep...
Most first-grade readers are dull because the authors, uninventive to begin with, are unable to surmount the limitation of "controlled vocabulary"-a controversial theory that beginning readers must stick to a few bite-size words and repeat them often. Whatever the ultimate solution, a sensible first step is hiring real writers who can make even a few words dance...