Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolved disputes but settled no issues. In his four years as President, he had miraculously survived 35 major and innumerable minor crises. Against his countrymen's express wishes, he imposed austerity on Argentina as the only way to right the foundering economy, and seemed to be making it stick. He also knew how to play, to the final moment of drama, the risky game of defying Argentina's military leaders, who have not fought a war since 1870 (against tiny Paraguay) but who control Argentina. Gradually, Frondizi came to mistake this adroitness at survival for a genius...
...unknown quantity of the unit is sophomore Lew Williams. As crease attackman he must replace Dave Bohn, last year's top scorer. No team can lose a scorer like Bohn (97 goals in two seasons) without feeling it but Williams has looked good in practice. Though his quick-stick is slower than Bohn's, he moves around more and picks up more loose balls. The team needs a big scorer. "What Williams does will make a lot of difference," according to Munro...
...accident happened. Mrs. Lillie Mae Colvin, 29, a Negro practical nurse, mother of three and pregnant, had filled the formula room's canister on Tuesday. She did this from one of two identical 20-gal. galvanized cans standing side by side in the kitchen, their lids marked with stick-on labels that said "sugar" and "salt'' (the salt label was torn). Mrs. Colvin was sure she had filled the canister from the can labeled sugar-but this might have contained salt, perhaps because the lids had been accidentally switched...
...hastened to add that, he continues to get the grassroots port he's been getting, it won't his decision not to run. Dad prior commitment which I don't he will break. He has promised people of Illinois that he'll stick the job. Besides he is engrossed in work and wants to finish." --April...
General Motors is in less of a hurry to produce its rumored compact compact, the Corvair II, will hedge its hesitation by importing the new Opel Kadett from Germany. Chrysler, not yet convinced that the market for new small cars is big enough, will stick firmly with its Simca imports. The big question: Will Cardinal cut as deeply into Falcon sales as Falcon has into standard Ford sales...