Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...False Hopes. Yet, as Kennedy discussed the problems confronting him, his visitors could sense in his words the calmness of a man who, after long and arduous deliberation, had made some vast and grave decisions-and intended to stick by them. Only a few weeks ago talk was rife in Western capitals of a "deal" with the Russians over Germany; last week that talk had all but vanished. Kennedy is determined to go to war over Berlin if necessary-and he so warned Russia's Andrei Gromyko during their October talk at the White House. Because he has decided...
...criminal companions. The cop who reported to his superiors found himself ostracized. More often than not, he found himself stripped of privileges, walking a boondock beat-or harried out of a job. Even before he turned to active crime, Jerry Sanford investigated a supermarket safecracking, found a night stick on the floor. "I picked it up and put it in my car. I'm not going to fink...
...Washington jury was more concerned with Scarbeck's confessions, found him guilty of passing classified information to Polish agents. Scarbeck's wife stayed loyal: "I plan to stick by him." Sentencing was deferred, but Karen Scar-beck's wait may be ten years long...
...second Coast Guard race, Horn momentarily lost control of his boat when the hiking stick came off the tiller, and a puff of wind nearly capsized him. But, with his boat half full of water and the crew bailing furiously, he let the sail run free and managed to reach the finish line a few inches ahead of one of Coast Guard's ace skippers...
Preferring to stick to its own concept, the I.A.P.A. convention voted unanimously to condemn the "conspiracy directed by Cuba to subvert and lead to the seizure of the press of the Americas by the Communists.'' and asked the 21-nation Organization of American States "to adopt all corrective measures in its charter." The I.A.P.A. elected as its new president Andrew Heiskell, board chairman of Time...