Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their "holidays" in Europe, as preparations for the independence celebrations began. Many would never return. Sabena's daily flights to Brussels were booked solid for weeks ahead, and hundreds of settlers were driving out through Uganda, their belongings piled high atop their autos. The Belgians who decided to stick it out were laying in stocks of food and fuel for a speedy getaway if necessary...
...N.A.M., the powerful Federation of Economic Organizations, for $250,000 to publicize his stand, he was turned away with the remark: "Money is hard to come by these days." Nonetheless, at week's end Kishi grimly went on television and announced once more his determination to stick. "If I resigned under pressure of violence," he said, "democracy in Japan would be destroyed...
...place as a Rolls-Royce in a one-car garage. Exceptions came along: Once Upon a Mattress climbed the magic money tree to Broadway, and The Threepenny Opera revival is now five years old and practically a city park. But overwhelmingly, the tenpenny impresarios preferred to stick to drama, shying from competition with Broadway's big, corporate musicals, which approach high finance with their million-dollar advance sales and use stars whose fees recall the lifetime winnings of Whirlaway. This season, the off-Broadway producers finally discovered that audiences
...earlier expected, top igss's record output of 117 million tons. None of them seems really alarmed about the state of steel, and Jones & Laughlin Chairman Avery C. Adams is convinced that 1960 will still be a record year. Says he: "I'm going to stick with my prediction that we'll produce at 80% of capacity and establish a new record of 120 million tons in 1960." Adams believes that the talk about percentage of capacity can be misleading, since the normal rate is 75% of capacity, and anything above that is "abnormally good," anything below...
...Furthermore, Communist propaganda likes to say that Eisenhower is the innocent dupe of Pentagon "war planners." Ike reversed himself, aggressively shouldered all the blame for the U-2 May Day flight. By this time critics were saying that the U.S. should stick to one side or the other, moralists were saying that the U.S. should not lie, and sophisticates in the espionage trade were saying that the U.S. did wrong to tell the truth...