Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existing programs were changed. The Army will continue with its Advent communications satellite; the Navy will stick with its Transit navigation satellite. And each service, in Pentagon parlance, will have "the right to think," to do research on the problems of putting its weapons .into space. But from now on, the Air Force is boss of the big boosters that make military space ventures possible...
...varsity has been a bit uneasy about defense, and Mike Patterson, yardling defenseman, may be able to the situation. Patterson accumulated during the season, while managing to stave off many an attack, Miller Ayre, while rather on offense, may be able to provide a strong defensive stick if Weiland needs...
...squad's sneakers, and the home team shows a sudden bounce-clear to the roof of the gymnasium. Does the villain (Keenan Wynn) try to steal the hero's secret? The prof discreetly adds a lift to that low heel, leaves him bouncing like a pogo stick till the nutty putty is recovered. Do the Army, Navy and Air Force consider his conquest of gravity a subject of levity? The prof goes whooshing off to Washington, circumflivverates the Capitol dome, lands on the White House lawn and triumphantly reveals the latest wonder of science to a "flubbergasted" world...
...feet out. The face-off which followed gave the Bulldogs' all-sophomore third line the puck in front of the Crimson cage. Bill Hildebrand and Lea Pendleton piddled with the puck on the right hand side of the crease, and eventually caused the puck to dribble off Bland's stick over to the left side, where the awaiting, unwatched Gunther poked...
Presidential Pressure? One of the architects of the Fed's 1951 accord was Martin, and that same year he took over as chairman, with the task of making "bills preferably" stick. Since the Eisenhower Administration viewed the Fed as the primary means of reining inflation, he had little trouble. But early in the campaign Kennedy made plain that he thought the Fed had swung from its earlier valet role too far toward an independent, negative role in monetary control. He wanted more Fed-Treasury cooperation, especially as he viewed the Fed as only one means of controlling credit...