Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your careful analysis ... of the . . . controversy manifests that the MacArthurites would "carry a big stick," while the Administration has been content to "speak softly" [TiME, April 30]. The Communists have long ago proven they respect the "big stick" more than any torrent of words or attempt at conciliation across the conference table...
...Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The plan had been to make unpopular Dean Acheson the chief G.O.P. target, ask him pointed questions about his discussions with the President, then try to cite him for contempt if he refused to answer. Even if they couldn't make the charge stick, Republicans hoped to keep the case in the courts and before the public until...
...heels. He was Washington's second-in-command, but the commander in chief never warmed to his quirky personality. It was Washington who stormed up to Lee at the battle of Monmouth, accused him of making an unnecessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat.† and made the charge substantially stick in a court-martial. Thirty months after the Adams accolade, Lee was suspended from the army and later died in disgrace...
...favorite's role, at 12-5, not so much because he had one of the better mounts in Battle Morn, but because he had already won the Kentucky Derby four times. Said one trainer: "I'd bet on Arcaro if he were riding a pogo stick...
Cleveland's faith in its Negro players marked the distance Negroes have coma in baseball since Jackie Robinson first barged through the major leagues' unwritten color line to join the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. This year at least 14 Negro players are sure to stick in the majors, eight of them concentrated in two New York clubs, the Giants (4) and the Dodgers (4). The lineup...