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Word: stick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance interview the Secretary of State is quoted as stating: "Negotiating with the Soviet Union is sometimes a frustrating experience, but at the end of the road, when you reach an agreement, they stick to their bargains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...ancestors. In his poems, he described the renaissance of the Jews in that beloved land of eternal sunshine, where streets are paved with emeralds and where there is an angel at every street corner and where God Himself, old but fit, strolls the streets of Jerusalem with his walking stick in the evening like a devoted senior citizen. In Jerusalem, so believed this businessman/ poet, the Jews would become a normal and healthy people of peasants and soldiers and then even surely an exemplary nation, "a light unto the nations," pioneers of universal redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Reflections on an Anniversary | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...offense was Mleczko. She added three goals to her six first-period goals and just missed a tenth late in the game when she was one-on-one with the goalie. Mleczko decided to take a high shot but her effort was countered by the goalie's stick, and the ball skidded to the left...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Laxwomen End Season 6-5 | 5/12/1978 | See Source »

...performance of freshman Sue St. Louis is very surprising indeed. Before last December, St. Louis had never held a lacrosse stick in her hand, and the first game she ever saw was the same as the first one she played in--three weeks ago. Yesterday she had five goals (three coming in a three-minute stretch late in the first half) and an assist for a game-high six points...

Author: By Keith Salkowski, | Title: Sarah and Sue Show Is a Hit: Laxwomen Trounce Tufts, 11-1 | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

...complex. Quick solutions are not possible. People expect immediate successes and when that doesn't happen, criticism is bound to follow. People have got to recognize that these are terribly difficult, long-term problems. You've got to give necessary time to work through them and not stick down a thermometer each week and say: What in hell have you done this week? This is true on Panama. I think we are going to get a Panama Canal treaty, but this has been a long, arduous process. You couldn't accelerate it. That takes time. The Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: People Want to See Coonskins | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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