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Word: sticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extreme way of dealing with the situation is for the Democrats to stick 100% with the New Deal and take their risk in the South. This, in effect, is advocated by Candidate Averell Harriman and by labor leaders like Walter Reuther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Robin Hood & Arithmetic | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...like Patti Page), or she might try an echo chamber background (like Peggy Lee). But gimmicks were not Georgia Gibbs's cup of tea. She had a big, old-fashioned voice, a good ear, a vivacious personality, and she knew how to sing from the shoulder. She would stick with plain Georgia Gibbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the Shoulder | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...state delegation. "I am not important," he told a group from Nebraska. "It is the basic belief that is important." To half a hundred Missouri delegates and alternates he used brisker language. "As long as we are in this thing," he said with a grin, "let's stick in it together and throw the stove lid at anything that gets in our way!" "I don't," he told men & women from Oklahoma, "make promises that a bottle of ointment will cure you of everything from poverty to flat feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Candidate's Education | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...asked to be released unconditionally, and again he reluctantly agreed, and added that the whole delegation could switch to Ike if he had more than 580 votes at the end of the first roll call. One of these (Kenneth Peterson, Republican state chairman) decided at the last minute to stick with Stassen after all. But the nine votes for Ike foreshadowed what Minnesota would do at the end of the roll call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Nominating Ballot | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...their finger in the credit pie, Jarrell sold hundreds of banks and finance houses on the idea of offering an Old Republic policy every time they made a loan. Old Republic went after loans of $1,000 and less, while other credit houses and companies preferred to stick to bigger loans. To cover every situation, Jarrell offered two types of credit life insurance. Under the first plan ($1 a year for every $100 borrowed), the balance of the loan still outstanding at death is paid off; under the second ($2 a year per $100), the loan balance is paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Billion-Dollar Baby | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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