Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment Her Britannic Majesty's First Minister leaned on his gold-headed walking stick and waved his grey Homburg at the welcoming crowd. With the caution of great age, he stepped to the ground to be greeted by Vice President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Then he shuffled to a battery of microphones and, as he read from typewritten notes, the Churchillian tones sounded strong and clear...
...makes a mistake on a new product, it can afford to drop it quickly and write off the investment. A small business, facing a loss it can ill afford, cannot. One of the costliest mistakes of diversification, says Thompson Products President John David Wright, is for a manufacturer to "stick with his product long after it should be dropped, to prove he was right." Another great problem is to find the new executives needed to make and sell a new product. Many a company falls into the trap of spreading its talent too thin...
...Waiting for the Sunrise were audible.* On the street outside the hotel, quartets with such names as the Agriculturalists (who dress in overalls, bandannas, straw hats) from Wisconsin, or the Clef Chefs (chef's aprons and hats) from Indiana, gathered at a street lamp decorated with peppermint-stick paper and gave out with Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie or Let the Rest of the World...
...golf bags? Tommy guns!"). Although he noted some bad kinks in his partner's performance, he offered no advice. Coming up to the 18th tee, though, Snead could no longer keep silent. "Mind if I tell you one thing?" he asked. His partner said no, not at all. "Stick your fanny out, Mr. President," said Snead. The President of the U.S. obeyed, and cracked out a drive 230 yards down the middle of the fairway...
kiddo," says Aunt Morgen, "you ought to see a doctor." Dr. Wright finds Elizabeth no more responsive than a waterlogged stick, until he tries hypnosis. Under hypnosis, Miss R.'s case, as the doctor calls it, becomes the plight of Goldilocks and those old Freudian bears, Superego, Ego and Id. Superego Elizabeth is a tense bundle of inhibitions clamped in the vise of social norms. Smothering within her is a sweet, outgoing girl, her potential Ego, whom the doctor nicknames Beth...