Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good old days, and the other run by a little-known reformer who proposed, in effect, a continuing revolution in Cuba, without Castro or Communism. There was a feeling that disillusionment with Castro had come a little late for Ray and many of his followers. The CIA decided to stick with Varona and his Frente as the instrument to overthrow Castro, and assigned an agent named Frank Bender to the task...
...reported our C.I.A. threw its main support to conservative elements among the refugees, this would surely reinforce these tendencies and make matters still worse. Offered a choice between Batista and Castro's proletarian brand of revolution, it is possible that a majority of Cubans would prefer, however reluctantly, to stick with Castro. Eric A. Havelock, Professor of Greek and Latin...
...delighted in playing the role of unpredictable tyrant. One day, he would be soft-spoken and agreeable, even delaying a transport of Jews so that it would not start on Yom Kippur; the next, he would scream hysterically and emphasize his points by slamming the desk with his swagger stick. When war began, Eichmann was head of the SS bureau called IV A 4 b-in Teutonic officialese, IV stood for the Gestapo, A for Internal Affairs, 4 for religion, and b for Jews. Until war's end, all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were to be his responsibility...
Limited Promise. There would be a place for the white man in Kenyatta's new Kenya. If the Europeans stick to their business and do not "mess with politics,'' they have nothing to fear, Jomo insisted...
...friend on the back with one hand, steals his wallet with the other. Four young punks stone a kitten to death and, when the wardrobe men protest, beat them up and break their mirror. When the closet-horses lie down to rest, a watchman drives them away with a stick. Heads bowed, they carry their burden back to the beach and quietly disappear into...