Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benton, who owns Muzak, runs the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and as an Assistant Secretary of State once directed the Voice of America. He hired a helicopter, plastered a big sign on it: "Here's Bill Benton," and went hopping about the state like a man on an aerial pogo stick. A leather-chair type gladhander, he strove for the common touch. At country fairs, he handed out windshield stickers and buttons, told the crowd: "I will say for you ladies that I've had an experience such as you may understand. Men's trousers weren't made...
...team is not much interested in going to Hollywood. For one thing, they think a good deal of their success depends on their understanding of the British background. "Hollywood's idea of Britain is strictly Victorian," they feel. "You'd . . . have to stick in the inevitable London fog, Thames Embankment, or Cleopatra's Needle . . . There's no doubt you'd become a hireling...
...Stick to your game," she replied. "You should have made that last shot...
...take Tuesday, or Wednesday off?" said the Eliot man, tearing the cloth with his stick...
...better job than the ins. The candidates tacitly ignored foreign affairs; Korea was hardly mentioned. Vargas supporters sometimes charged the present government with serving U.S. interests, and Dutra's partisans accused Vargas of accepting subsidies from Peron; but none of these charges could be made to stick...