Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pizazz, last year's big word, means jazzy touches for those who dream of owning a sports car. Pizazz includes stick shifts, grip bars on the dashboard, and bucket seats...
...idea that community activity can mean social progress. It is this simple notion--that progress is possible but can only be achieved through co-operation--that an integrationist group must get across to combat the attitude, constantly reiterated by the local Negroes themselves, that "we people can never stick together, or get anywhere in the white man's world...
...baby with two heads. When he has its distraught parents dance around it to the tune of "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" played on a xylophone, however, he is thought of as "terribly clever" only by those warped individuals who think that perversion treated as a slap-stick comedy is meaty intellectual fare...
...that 17-year clash of egos, Caitlin Thomas, 47, sometimes wondered how she and the tosspot genius avoided killing each other. Now, in a "Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter" in Harper's, irascible, Celtic-tongued Caitlin has some heartfelt advice for her 18-year-old: "Stick, my child, for goodness' sake, to creating babies, washing nappies, and crooning lullabies. A woman's place, as Dylan never ceased to tell me in vain, is in the bed or at the sink, and the extent of her travels should be from one to the other and back...
...entered the fray. A half-million dollars from the Auto Workers and other unions went into the organization campaign among the New York teachers, he claimed, arguing that labor is now trying to make up for declining blue-collar membership by taking in white-collar teachers, who otherwise might stick with the "professional" N.E.A. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President James B. Carey was shouted down by the delegates in Denver before he could reach a key retort in his speech to the convention: "Teachers are welcoming unionism as a wave of the future. The N.E.A. should, too, or it will find...