Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, nobody who has ever met Lyndon Johnson believes that he will actually stick to this stay-at-home schedule, but in the meanwhile Humphrey has been assigned to crisscross the nation in a continuous, hard-hitting campaign. He will concentrate on the Midwest, the Rocky Mountain states and the South, is already scheduling trips into North Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Florida and Louisiana. He may also whistle-stop in California, Illinois and Indiana...
...autocratic Reiner had made a practice of firing 25 to 40 orchestra members each year. Steinberg established a "stick-together" policy and cut the annual turnover rate to less than ten. "Within just a few seasons," he explains, "experience, confidence and the pleasure of making music made good musicians into excellent musicians...
...persuaded his Military Revolutionary Council, the country's nominal ruling body, to promote him from Premier to President and grant him virtually absolute powers. Khanh acted with the knowledge and at least qualified approval of U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor. But Khanh simply could not make his new authority stick. As if at a signal, South Viet Nam's petty, selfish political and religious factions cut loose, not really giving a hoot about the war, hating one another more than the Viet Cong, and using Khanh's power play as an excuse to move on one another...
...most delightful haven for very small children. Created by some of Denmark's best artists and architects, it has canals to sail boats on, a long, twisty slide that ends up in a sandbox, a Viking ship to climb over, a maze with magic mirrors, holes to stick small heads through, and other diversions...
...Asked whether he was now a dictator, Khanh replied quizzically: "For six months I have been head of a totalitarian regime without being totalitarian. I can head a dictatorial regime without being a dictator." But it would take more than subtle semantics to make Khanh's new powers stick...