Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mossadegh does not promise his country a way out of this nearly hopeless situation. He would rather see the ruin of Iran than give in to the British, who, in his opinion, corrupted and exploited his country. He is not in any sense pro-Russian, but he intends to stick to his policies even though he knows they might lead to control of Iran by the Kremlin...
...convention will probably take stands on such--by now familiar--issues as post-season games, two-platoon football and spring practice. It will, however, be the first organization with a chance of making its decisions stick on a nationwide basis...
...court's verdict (ten judges to two): Norway is right. The defeated British indicated that they would salvage some satisfaction by using the same measuring stick for their fishing grounds off the ragged coasts of Scotland, where Norwegian trawlers fish. Unlike Norway, they may have trouble proving that their, claim has been shored up by what the international court calls "constant and sufficiently long practice...
...everyone had yet jumped on the bandwagon. Southeast Conference athletic officials, their feet dragging noticeably, voted almost unanimously to tell the ten college presidents to stick to their educational knitting. Bowl officials were outraged at being singled out for criticism. The righteous indignation was summed up by Lathrop Leishman, chairman of the Rose Bowl's football committee: "The problems of proselyting and subsidizing of athletes exists in conferences that never play postseason games . . . You can't cure the mange by killing...
Kirkland has led the other Houses with 25 early vacationers, but the mass exodus will probably not start until tonight. Most students stick it out to the bitter end, however, and will, on Saturday, join their early-bird Yuletide vacationers...