Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican majorities in House and Senate are not required by law to stick to seniority assignment-but they usually...
...American empire of 2002 would, like Augustus' Roman Empire, make great use of what Toynbee called "constitutional fictions." The U.S. once overlorded it over Latin America with a big stick, Toynbee says, but learned better. "The states of Europe and Asia within the U.S. sphere of influence are going to be as touchy as the Latin American states, and the U.S. is likely to handle them by a diplomatic technique that she has learned from her Latin American experience...
...iron" (any car); "heat and music" (radio and heater); "bill" ($100); "dozen" ($1,200) "cream puff" (a used car that was well taken care of) ; "dings" (minor dents) ; "down on its knees" (bad front end) ; "on the clock" (on the speedometer) ; "barefoot, no rubber, no shoes" (wornout tires); "stick and no box" (aerial but no radio...
Forthwith the Times got a lesson in 1) the power of advertising and 2) the readiness of Stevenson followers to write for their candidate. Overnight, 2,120 letters and wires flooded into the Times offices. Only 142 urged the paper to stick to Ike; the other 1,978 called for a switch. Next day, just as it would with any other news story, the Times dutifully reported the avalanche of "restrained communications" in response to the ad. It answered the communications by reprinting a three-column editorial that it had run only three days before, reaffirming the Times...
...Stick to the Job. By this time Father Jesus was convinced that the, twisting, crossing passages formed a sort of city, perhaps the first in prehistory. He longed to penetrate all its mysteries. Perhaps he would find some central place where the cavemen held the first meetings or ceremonies of human society...