Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week he struck out in favor of his foreign-aid program. In two messages to Congress and in a broadcast speech (see below), he made his position clear, but did not stick around to deal with congressional or public reaction. He took off for a work-rest vacation at Key West...
Central Africa's 169,000 whites in the three territories strongly support federation. Said chunky Roy Welensky, unofficial Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia: "If three people are going down a dark road, they'd better stick together." But 6,000,000 Africans, insofar as their sentiments can be judged at all, seem as strongly opposed. With federation they fear that Southern Rhodesia's South-African-style "color bar" would be extended to the other territories. They are unwilling to lose the protection of the British Colonial Office, which traditionally shields the African from racial persecution...
...professor at Columbia-have answered long & loud: make U.S. education truly liberal. That means, according to Adler, that 1) American college professors must commit academic hara-kiri by giving up their specialized fields; they should be able to teach anything in the liberal arts; 2) the scientific method should stick to science, and leave to philosophy the job of determining matters of right & wrong; 3) all Americans should get the same kind of liberal education till they take their A.B. (from two to four years earlier than at present) and specialize later...
...competitive spirit, redoubles its efforts to take the lead. The driver's commands are simple and horsy: "Gee" for right, "Haw" for left, "Whoa" (more hopefully than convincingly) for stop. A steel-toothed prong, controlled by a foot pedal, digs into the snow to make the "Whoa" stick, but most drivers believe that the grinding noise of the brake, rather than its retarding effect, is the only thing that will stop an eager 35-to 85-lb. sled...
Time was when all an artist needed to express himself was a stain, a stick and a space. But modern technology offers artists a thousand new ways of creating, and artists must concern themselves with means as well as ends. One of the newest mediums is the invention of California's Robert Mallary, 34, whose experiments in color and design are now on view in a Sacramento gallery...