Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leveling on Ford. After shaping up G.M., Sloan in the mid-'20s leveled his sights on his bitter and then bigger rival, Ford. Old Henry Ford's policy was to stick with one model, in one color, in one price bracket-forever, if possible. Sloan countered with a strategy of change and diversity that aimed at the auto buyers' varying tastes and pocketbooks and their desire for change. He broadened G.M.'s line by creating the medium-priced Pontiac and by extending Chevrolet further into the low-priced field. He then inaugurated the most unbeatable auto...
...beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick placed against their necks. Kaduk had already served nine years in an East German prison for what he contemptuously called "the Auschwitz business" when he was paroled and fled to West Berlin. There police caught up with him again. "I stand here innocent," Kaduk shouted at the court. "I chose...
Auto carburetors clog, typewriters stick and doors jam; airplanes no longer land at the local airport. Slowly the city's drainage system is plugging up-and so much ash has settled in the Reventado River that a recent rainstorm sent waters spilling over the banks, destroying some 500 homes in the city of Cartago...
Excellent goal tending by Barry Sweitzer bolstered the Crimson defense. With its aggressive offense and good stick-handling, Harvard simply outplayed Toronto...
...outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen, for at that very moment the British flag was fluttering down for the last time in neighboring Kenya...