Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before the friend spoke up, Ike had decided that he would probably have to stick close to Washington this winter...
...alternative was suggested several thousand years ago, namely, "doing unto others as we would have them do unto us." Impractical? May be so, but it works. The hardest of criminals will respond favorably to such treatment when genuine and done in the absence of a "big stick" behind one's back...
...Korean armistice. "Our prayers go with you," said U.N. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge as the Secretary General's plane took off. In England, where he picked up Professor Humphrey Waldock, Oxford's ranking expert on international law, Dag Hammarskjold was advised by Sir Anthony Eden to stick closely to the P.W. issue and fend off all Chinese efforts to bargain for U.N. recognition. "To release these men would simply undo the latest of a series of acts of bad faith," wrote the Daily Telegraph summarizing Eden's position. "It would not accomplish the moral rehabilitation of Communist...
...loyalty of the railwaymen should not be taken as weakness or complacency. Their patience is not inexhaustible." Three weeks ago, refused a modest $1.12-to $1.32-a-week raise for workers making between $17 and $24, Big Jim reluctantly gave the order to strike. The Transport Commission could only stick to the old argument: the commission did not have the money...
...other fantasies, a movie director and his script-writing wife win back brief happiness in a flying visit to Regency England, a schoolmaster gets a terrifying look at the future, a cabinet minister has the illusion that he is addressing an audience of dead men. Expertly told, these stories stick so sternly to the same supernatural theme as to suggest that the author, who has been writing plays for years about tricks with time ( I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways}, would rather like to take his fantasies seriously. The one exception is Uncle Phil...