Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey and his advisers were firmly convinced that 1944 was no year for barnstorming. They wanted to keep the campaign on a high, even solemn level, befitting a time of crisis. On the practical side, they knew that the mistakes a candidate makes count much more heavily, and stick in the voters' minds much more firmly, than positive gains...
...make this sentence stick as something more than a sentence torn out of context, Candidate Dewey pointed out that in traveling "down that New Deal road" there are now "55 Government corporations arid credit agencies with net assets of $27,000,000,000," that the Government now owns or operates one-fifth of all the manufacturing plants in the U.S. (Actually, most of these are war plants.) Governor Dewey charged that thus "little by little, the New Deal is developing its own form of corporate state." That, said Candidate Dewey, was why Comrade Browder favors Term IV -that...
...idea of the tremendous proportions of the task of separating human blood plasma. Remove the red and white corpuscles from the blood, and one has the plasma, composed of water and protein. Even the biggest of these protein particles would be only the length of a man's walking stick in the Harvard Stadium. At that size it would be a particle of fibrinogen, the protein which causes blood to clot and which is used in the new cures for bleeding...
...World and America" (and each of our other programs) tries to do with the spoken word the same job TIME does with the printed word: get important information into the heads of busy, intelligent Americans-and make it stick...
...hard official crust, the Reich was heaving. From Berlin came persistent stories of peace riots. There were frequent killings in the streets. Travelers to Bern and Stockholm now began to report that Germans might revolt. The Russian radio broadcast easy lessons in disarming police patrols. Said Moscow: "A hefty stick will get you a revolver; to get a rifle and a few grenades with the help of a pistol is no work of art." Himmler announced appointment of a new police chief for Berlin...