Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conferred with a rebel lieutenant and promised to send a delegation to talk with the leader of the Kivu revolt, Leftist Emile Soumialot. But such are the petty rivalries among the rebel leadership that even if Soumialot were to sign a ceasefire, many doubt that he could make it stick. For all the hope Tshombe's appearance inspired in Kivu, an ominous mood underlay the superficially triumphant tour. One Kivu official bluntly warned Tshombe: "If you do not succeed, you are a false prophet." The Premier's bright grin disappeared for a moment. "You are so right...
...hardly anyone in the U.S. who is not in some way affected by one or another of their acts. They fix the price of milk and electric power, decide where airlines can fly and pipelines snake, police the stock market and determine the content of a tube of lip stick. They are the nation's 30 federal regulatory agencies - and their great powers over American life and business have become increasingly controversial. Senator Everett Dirksen calls them "the headless fourth branch of government...
...Maxwell D. Taylor, fresh in shining sharkskin and a bright resolve. The Viet Cong had sworn to kill him, and indeed a terrorist carrying a homemade grenade in a loaf of bread had been captured just yards from the U.S. embassy the day before. But Max Taylor figured to stick around a while -at least until after the U.S. election...
...this was just too high church for the delegates, who resolved to stick with hygienically superior individual Communion glasses, changed all references to the minister as "celebrant" of Holy Communion to "officiant," and refused to encourage private confession. "I was taught that confession is to God," said Florida Layman Edgar Armstrong. "It isn't necessary to confess to anyone else to receive forgiveness if I am truly penitent...
...opinion-she sees no reason not to be vicious about actors if she wants to be. "I don't think actors have any right to private lives," she says. "If they want to have privacy, they shouldn't be actors. I don't like cowards who stick their necks out and then scream and run. You can't have it both ways...