Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the speech was cut to fit the charge it answered. The attack on Nixon's fund as picked up by the New York Post (see PRESS) derived most of its power from the assumption that some of the mud would stick and thus disqualify Nixon (and, through the doctrine of guilt by association, Eisenhower) from continuing a moral crusade against corruption & Communism. The specific legal and moral case against Nixon was so foggy and so vague that Nixon would have made the mistake of his life if he had tried to answer with specific legal or ethical arguments...
...dreary obsession that we must fear above all, not the Kremlin, but our own Government." This theory, he went on, implies a defense effort adjusted to an arbitrary budget, and by accepting it Ike had reversed Teddy Roosevelt's advice to speak softly and carry a big stick. "The new advice is to talk tough and carry a twig" -a policy which "would demoralize the free world, embolden the Soviet Union to new military adventures and, in the end, pull down the world into the rubble and chaos of a third world...
...With all due apologies to my Irish friends," Boothby went on, "I stick to my opinion...
Said the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's President James C. Burkham last week: "We took Gallup again only after Dr. Gallup himself came out to sell us. He proved to us singlehanded that he had changed his technique ... so he would never stick his neck and ours out again...
...Keeper of the Privy Purse, and in the last year of his life (1935) he was rewarded with a peerage. Ponsonby could speak bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and was "always interested in the possibility of raising King John's treasure from the Wash...