Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason. His most provocative example is Truman's help in founding the state of Israel, a policy that Acheson felt would produce enduring chaos in the Middle East. Elsewhere, he extols the ex-President's judgment, orderliness of mind and ability to make a decision and stick to it. "If he was not a great man," remarks Acheson, "he was the greatest little man the author knew anything about...
Shahn used this photograph as the basis for a painting, entitled "Handball." He also derived another work, "Vacant Lot." from a photograph he took of a boy hitting stones with a stick against a brick wall...
...industry to modernize its methods. For decades, the ancient heritage of local controls was reflected in the industry's organization, methods and vision. The typical builder was an ex-carpenter who kept his office in his hat, drew plans on an old paper bag, clung to stick-by-stick construction techniques, operated with shoestring financing. Now dozens of major U.S. manufacturers and other large enterprises are moving into housing and land development with bulging bankrolls, big teams of experts and grand plans...
Members of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities said that Berg's "repeated violations" of a University order barring him from Harvard property "left no alternative but to ask for court action to make the order stick...
When the committee faced evidence suggesting that Berg had violated the order, it had two choices, according to Wilson: "we could ignore the evidence and conclude that we really didn't mean the earlier warnings, or we could decide that we had to make the warning stick...