Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange campaign," wrote Chicago Daily News Editor-Publisher John Knight last week. "Ike and his team will stick to the high road, while Stevenson . . . will campaign on a lower level than he did four years ago. It seems to me that the high-level pitch . . . is mainly a holding operation, which may actually lose much of the support Ike received in 1952 from independent voters and disgruntled Democrats. The Republicans, with a first-term record of 'peace and prosperity,' have a lot to sell. But they must sell it hard from now to November...
What we do in that respect-if that should be what we would do-would be coming back to plague us and haunt us in the days to come. So I say, let's stick together, and continue to work not only for peace but also for peace in conformity with the principles of justice and international...
...every known measuring stick, the $64,000 Question is the nation's No. 1 TV show. Every Tuesday night some 13 million Americans forgo reading, bypass the movies and other forms of entertainment to watch a carefully picked group of eccentric specialists give everyone a vicarious feeling of cupidity. Last week promoters of the show tried to lure a bigger audience than ever with newspaper ads to ballyhoo a mysterious "world-famous guest." As the guest walked front and center, the announcer intoned: "Our next guest on the golden threshold of the $64,000 Question is from Suffolk, England...
Samuel Sears, last year's head of the Bar, agreed that the judge is "wonderful," but felt that the President should appoint "someone who will stick," and that Hand "should not even be considered...
...with a few interesting faults. In the original, Paton used a haunting, pseudo-biblical style and a rather melodramatic story about a white police lieutenant's seduction of a native girl to explore the poisonous influence of racism on the "European" population of South Africa. Libott clearly tried to stick closely to the structure of the novel, but in doing so missed some of its spirit. Paton's book carried a strong aura of urgency, of events sweeping toward inexorable doom, but in the play the same events often seem merely episodic...