Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...request temporary tax cuts and increased unemployment benefits from Congress-but not vast public-works programs. Although a deficit is all but inevitable, Kennedy will try to stay close to Eisenhower's balanced $80.9 billion budget. Budget Director David Bell has already warned executive agencies to stick within previously decided limits in revising their estimates, has promised that increases will be restricted to "a relatively small number of items" upon which the President himself will make the decisions...
Leaning heavily on a silver-knobbed walking stick, Sir Winston Churchill, 86, clumped slowly into the House of Commons for the first time since he broke a bone in his back last November. Churchill's entrance was met with Commons' warmest welcoming growl of "Hear-hear-hear-hear," enthusiastically led by the member whose speech he had interrupted, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Beaming, Sir Winston plumped himself down on the government front bench for half an hour, but in keeping with the self-imposed silence he has maintained in Parliament since his resignation as Prime Minister...
...Barlow). Transgressors were tried by a "judge" sitting atop teacher's desk and wearing teacher's sweater backward as a robe. By the first graduation exercises, even kids once addicted to pedaling along at dizzy speeds were reformed enough to win coveted safety certificates. If the lessons stick with the children through the ten years or so before they can drive, the scheme promises to be a big success, and the only complainers are parents who bridle at advice from back-seat drivers of inconsiderable years...
...Friars Club of Hollywood gave a testimonial party for Gary Cooper, had everyone from Sam Goldwyn to Dean Martin and California Governor Pat Brown on hand to participate in the big salaam. Those who tried to stick to the subject very nearly drowned him in glue. "A Gary Cooper is rare, there is only one," recited Poet Audrey Hepburn, "and there will never be another under the sun." Milton Berle risked a hail of hot lead by saying: "Coop got his first Green Stamps from Polly Adler." Carl Sandburg announced that he and Sinatra had founded an organization in Cooper...
...Doubleday: $3.95), is the work of a Yorkshire coal miner's son who seems to think that it is still possible to write a novel about ordinary people who do what they have to do. Nowadays, the idea seems almost revolutionary; but Novelist Barstow makes it stick...