Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. Later, six miles out in the Pacific off Los Angeles, the prince, with no inkling that he was pushing his luck, was flying a propeller-driven Navy trainer when its engine quit. His Air Force pilot glided the plane back to International Airport, made a dead-stick landing. "We just had a lot of fun," said Bernhard. "There was no danger of swimming...
...marriage to Cinemactress Lana Turner, 34, has converted them both into plain old homebodies: "We just have dinner at home, and never go any place. She owes me a fortune in gin rummy." Lana, said Lex, lets him hang his trophies on the wall. "Some women might stick up their noses at my African shields and my helmets and swords, but Lana's cute about it. She tries on the helmets...
...first rise in more than a year. Tin, tacking on a nickel, shot up to 93? a lb. as purchases were stepped up. Judging from the metal futures markets, which last week scored the biggest gains in years, metal speculators figure the rises will stick...
...made the biggest oratorical hit of the week with conference delegates. Rhetorically demanding: "What is international Communism?" he lashed out at "imperialism" and "foreign monopolies," then called the U.S. program "only a pretext to intervene in our internal affairs." Toriello went on to recall "the Big Stick, the tarnished 'dollar diplomacy' and the landing of the U.S. Marines in Latin American ports" that marked U.S.-Latin American relations in the old days before nonintervention became the U.S. doctrine. Having played his role of underdog to the hilt, Toriello wound up with a grandiloquent appeal to the Liberator Bolivar...
Fifty years ago Teddy Roosevelt backed the Monroe Doctrine with the United States Marines. This afternoon, secretary of state dulles will have to sell the principles of the Doctrine without using the "big stick." In backing his strongly worded anti-communist resolution, he must try to convince the representatives at the Inter-American conference that strong measures are necessary for hemispheric security. The delegates, however, after studying an early release of the proposal, have indicated a general disapproval...