Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ovation finally died away, Murphy said; "Let's stick with old George tonight; this is a fund-raising rally and we don't want to run overtime...
What was more, there was considerable doubt that the TWA contract would stick. It must be ratified by the TWA chapter of the flight engineers' union, and Ronald Brown, the union president, said of the members: "They don't like it. I don't think they...
...gardens, installing great sheets of water, commanding elegant distant views. ".Such a mistake," he told Osbert, "to have friends: they waste one's time." Not wasting his own. Sir George did voluminous research on "The Correct Use of Seaweed as an Article of Diet," worked on a walking stick designed to squirt vitriol at mad dogs, planned an illustrated pamphlet entitled The Twenty-seven Postures of Sir George R. Sitwell. Projects like these ran in the family. A Sitwell kinsman went to the trouble of having his coat of arms carefully inscribed on his food...
...militia sergeant. Bebo thinks himself a hero; he knows simply that his victim was a nonCommunist, therefore an enemy. Mara is indifferent; she does not really care much for Bebo or his problems. But when Bebo is sentenced to 14 years in jail, Mara decides to stick by him. At the book's end, with seven years to go, she is still sticking...
...Staple Singers stick with their family name; the group consists of Father Roebuck Staples, two daughters and a son. Their muted but intensely exciting gospel style, with its country blues feeling, is a reflection of what Roebuck heard when he was growing up in rural Mississippi. Roebuck himself is a first-rate guitarist, but his daughter Mavis is the best vocalist-a contralto whose voice has both a honeyed quality and almost hypnotic intensity. The Staples, who have been appearing together for 12 years, feel "we are fulfilling our obligation as Christian people by singing the Gospel...