Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly acted like a candidate (a current Senate joke: "Have you heard that Lyndon is writing his bills on stone tablets?"). He hadn't done much campaigning outside of Texas, to be sure, but the first order of business, according to the Johnson master plan, was to stick to his Senate job, building and improving his legislative record and displaying the public image of Lyndon Johnson, the steadfast statesman, while other candidates battled through the primaries. Later, he would campaign on that record and that image-or so the experts said. Meanwhile, the L.B.J. outriders traveled all over...
...tall, slim Mary Hauser, a Hollywood housewife who knows little about the innards of automobiles ("I don't even know where the oil stick is"), the economy run seemed relatively simple. Said Mrs. Hauser, winner of the low-price, six-cylinder class in a Plymouth Savoy: "I think male drivers are high-strung, tense, too worried about stepping on the accelerator without thinking. Me, I just sit there calmly, smoking a cigarette, steering with one hand-and shaking my teeth." Tennis...
Nossal's uncritical reporting from Red China can be explained partly in terms of Red China's low tolerance for any other kind, partly because he went to Peking under orders from the Globe to stick to features and to avoid antagonizing his hosts. In any event, it hardly seems worth the expense...
...isolated area, where he works on small, 30-lb. furnace doors that he can handle alone. And there he stays eight hours a day in bitter silence, finding relief only when he goes home at night to his wife and five children. Says he grimly: "I can stick it out as long as they...
...orders of his first postmilitary disk, Stuck on You. Already on TV tape was a slight spectacular that Elvis recently made with Crooner Frank Sinatra for a trifling $125,000. He could expect more petty cash from Stuck on You and its memorable lyrics. Sample: Ah'm gonna stick like glue-stick because Ah'm stuck on you, Ah'm gonna run ma fingers through yer long black hair-An' squeeze you tighter than a grizzly bear...