Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allen Dulles not only sketched its functions but also the kind of men the nation needed to attract to such duty. "The agency," he suggested to Congress, "should be directed by a relatively small but elite corps of men with a passion for anonymity and a willingness to stick at that particular...
...have no throat. I am going to continue to work hard for a socialist society. There is enough here for everyone, but we must learn to share it equally." Did the President have any travel plans? "Yes," snapped Sukarno with a swish of his silver-mounted swagger stick, "I am going to the moon." That drew a wry rejoinder from Foreign Minister Adam Malik, seated near by. "It is impossible," said Malik. "I have not approved his visa." Malik, roared Sukarno, was quite "a jokester...
...many divergent types work-most of the time-in such close harmony? As one violinist explains: "There is one glorious counter-stress that makes everything worthwhile-the joy of making music." And, it might also be added, with the smug certainty that the fellow up there waving a stick at them is a musical ignoramus as well as an exhibitionist...
...down to 5½%," predicted Vice President-Comptroller John W. D. Wright of International Harvester. "It's only a question of time." Said President Mark C. Wheeler of Boston's New England Merchants National Bank: "My own belief is that Chase is going to make 5½% stick. The demand for funds has been a little less and the supply of money a little larger than expected...
Pinter's characters are, to a man, stick figures. They are threadbare solipsists, suspended over an abyss. They know, and we learn, that if any one of them makes too loud a sound all will tumble in. Each speaks a private language, packed with private symbols as inscrutable to the other characters as to us. It is a measure of their cardboard substance that we are not surprised if any one of them gives a silly giggle and drops to the stage, dead as cold toast...