Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comforting to know that President Carter has at last adopted the Teddy Roosevelt policy of diplomacy with a big stick, even though it is only a toothpick...
...Soviet campaign is clearly aimed at pressuring Western European parliaments, but this time with both carrot and stick. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who last week dispelled rumors that he was gravely ill by appearing in public for the first time in 16 days (he showed up at a Moscow airport to welcome South Yemen's President), made ample use of both when he first launched the Soviet pitch in East Berlin on Oct. 6. On the one hand, he warned that if NATO carried out its ''dangerous'' plan, the Warsaw Pact would have...
...When you hire a manager you have to stick with him. If you meddle too much, you won't know whether the results are yours or his," Putnam says...
...change, from last year, is her relaxed attitude. "I've really calmed down out there," Field says. "I have a tendency to lose my temper, but I've realized I'm never going to get anywhere throwing my stick around...
Princeton winger Lisa Pratt slapped a pass in front of the goalmouth, and Ippolito shifted her position to cut down the angle. The ball was misdirected, however, when it hit Riefler's stick and rolled slowly into the Harvard net, inches past Ippolito...