Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also agreed-over the protests of Administration Democrats-to take away some of the power which Congress had given him last September. When a final bill does get to the White House, instead of having a club to fight the devils of inflation, Harry Truman will have only a stick...
...Britain's Japanese occupation commander, Lieut. General Sir Horace Robertson.That night she landed at a military airfield in southern Japan. She spent the following day hiding out in a poolroom. "I think you call it pool," she explained later. "Anyway, where they hit something with a stick...
Charges & Reports. It was a case that needed detail to counter the Administration's detail, that needed documentation to make its charges stick. Far from producing such evidence, the Republicans were often reduced to questions prefaced by such phrases as "some have charged that-" or "there is a report that-." Many a Republican on the committee was frankly impressed by the Secretary's well-briefed grasp of facts, dates and documents. Wisconsin's waspish Alexander Wiley said to him: "You have had a long chore, sir, and have done a grand job for yourself, I would...
...when MacLean was promoted to a post as Counselor in Cairo, his polished calm cracked. One night he burst into the apartment of a friend, smashed every stick of furniture in the place. The Foreign Office considered him too valuable to let him go. He was recalled to London, given psychiatric treatment. His new job after the crackup: boss of the Foreign Office's American section...
...indicated that they would be reluctant to honor the 1951 schedule unless Penn got back in step. Athletic Director Bob Kane of Cornell, Penn's biggest rival, announced "it could very well mean that" Cornell will not play Penn. Columbia, California, Dartmouth, Princeton and Navy figured they would stick by the N.C.A.A. By this week it began to look as if Penn was rapidly losing friends and influencing practically...